BOMBANANA Level 6: three panels and Pressure

Level 6 adds Cable to the Calculator and Color Slider pair from Level 5, replaces the rising Slider hazard with Pressure, and gives you 30 more seconds. The mistake allowance stays at three. All three defusal families are fixed; their live colors, numbers, and answers are not.

Treat this as a coordination checkpoint before Level 7 introduces four Random Easy slots. The preparation below is a suggested team routine, not a mandatory solve order or a recorded speedrun.

• Compare Level 5: Calculator, Color Slider and Slider
• Next: Level 7 and its four Random Easy slots
• Loadout source: Level 6, version 1.0.0 (checked September 7, 2026)

Deaf identifies each visible panel and its location; Mute handles the manual; Blind operates the bomb. Use Deaf to call a Pressure warning and guide Blind to its center button. Assigning a watcher does not give that player a different role or control permission.

Choose whichever defusal panel your team can identify and explain clearly. Finish that exchange before starting another. In particular, do not leave an unlabeled Calculator number circulating while Cable colors are being called. Deaf cannot hear a spoken readback: Mute can use an agreed visible signal to flag a misunderstanding, and Deaf checks the visible result after Blind acts.

• Role abilities and the communication relay

Use this checklist to find the missing information. It does not replace the current manual or prescribe the answer for a particular bomb.

• Calculator: second-stage table and worked examples
• Cable: required inputs and public table
• Color Slider: ordered inputs and manual lookup

Pressure requires repeated center-button presses to reduce its rising needle. It is not the pull-down Slider from Level 5. Keep it under observation until the bomb is defused; no measured universal warning height is established by this guide.

Suggested handoff: Deaf calls “Pressure — pause Calculator,” directs Blind to the Pressure control, checks the needle, then names Calculator again. Recheck its stage before issuing a new input. An accepted arithmetic result must not be entered again simply because it was the last number anyone remembers.

• Pressure control procedure

After a retry, note the panel, the last completed action, and whether Pressure interrupted it. If arithmetic was correct but the final Calculator key failed, check parity, LED and key location. If Cable failed, compare the intended color with the physical cable that was cut. If Color Slider stalled, inspect the numbered positions against the returned sequence.

For the next attempt, change one observable habit: name the panel before every color, retain the Calculator result, or announce the restart stage. There is no evidence here for a guaranteed completion time or one universally fastest opening.

Use a short spoken rehearsal outside the run to separate the two Calculator decisions. One teammate supplies an example arithmetic result; another records that result and its parity. Then introduce a pretend Pressure interruption before supplying an example LED color. The team must return to the saved result rather than calculate parity from the final digit. This exercise tests information retention; it is not a new game mode or a claim about a particular bomb.

Repeat the exercise for Cable using an invented ordered list of colors. Have the manual reader identify a position, then require the relay to state both that position and its expected color. If those descriptions disagree, stop the rehearsal and resolve the numbering convention. Do not turn a practice answer into a remembered instruction for the next live layout.

During the actual retry, choose a single observation to review afterward: whether the team named the returning panel, whether Blind received a physical location, or whether Deaf checked the result. Record the first missing step rather than judging the attempt only by time remaining. A completed panel with a confused handoff still deserves discussion, because the same habit can fail when Pressure interrupts earlier.

• Blind: keep physical actions under control
• Mute: preserve the lookup state
• Deaf: report the result before the next command