Watching and Bombing
Watch a match as it is played, and at a Tic-Tac-Boom table with bombs, blow a mark off the board yourself.
A match does not need you in a seat to be worth opening. Every move lands as it is played, so you can watch a match from the first mark to the last - and at some Tic-Tac-Boom tables, you can take part in it.
Watching
Anyone who can open the game can watch a live match. The board updates as each move is recorded, the pot shows what the winner will take, and the names above the board are the two people playing.
Who can throw a bomb
A bomb is thrown by someone watching. To throw one you need all three:
- The table was opened with bombs. A host decides that when they open it, and it cannot be changed afterwards. Drop Four tables never have them - see Drop Four.
- You are signed in. A bomb is sent in your name, so the board can say who threw it.
- You are not one of the two players. This one is not a setting in the app; the table itself refuses a bomb from either seat.
Each match allows a set number of bombs - three by default - and once they are thrown there are no more for that match.
What a bomb does
You pick any marked square, either player's, while the match is on. The mark is blown off and the square is empty again, and either player can play there on a later turn. Whose turn it is does not change. The board names who threw each bomb.
What it costs
A bomb costs no sats. You pay only the small charge every move pays to be sent, the same as a player pays to make a move. Nothing joins the pot and nothing pays the table, so a bomb never changes what the winner takes.
It is a thing you did to the match, not a stake in it: it pays nothing to you whoever wins.
The rest of the money - the buy-in, the host's part and the draw - is on How a Lobby Works.