What are/were bombs?
Bombs were a type of weapon which used to be allowed in the Assassins game, consisting of devices which made “bang” noises when triggered by, for example, the target opening their door. However, although bombs were always supposed to be labelled as harmless imitations, college authorities were understandably unhappy on the rare occasions when someone got the wrong end of the stick and managed to mistake a bottle of lemonade labelled “FAKE BOMB” for a real terrorist threat, and so bombs have recently been removed from the rules. Since the bomb rules were one of the most complicated and poorly-understood parts of the rules (for example, the blast radius of a bomb was a linear function of the logarithm of its volume), as well as the fact that they almost never killed wary players and when they did it was usually in contentious circumstances, the removal of bombs from the game is felt by many, although not all, to be quite a good thing anyway.
