BOMBANANA! Color Slider Module: Push It All the Way

The Color Slider module presents four sliders, each a different color, that can only be pushed up or down. The manual's whole rule fits in one line: "Move the sliders up or down according to their colors." Deceptively simple — the failure mode is not understanding the rule, it is losing track of which slider has been moved.

How the Color Slider Works

The Blind monkey sees the four sliders and their colors. The Deaf calls out each slider's color one at a time, and the Mute reads the manual to say whether that slider goes up or down.

The two rules that matter:

1. Push fully. A slider only registers when it reaches its end position. A half-pushed slider is a non-move.
2. One wrong move resets the module. If any slider is pushed the wrong direction, the module's progress resets — every slider snaps back and the team starts over. There is no partial credit for the sliders already in place.

The Reset Trap

Because a single wrong direction resets the whole module, Color Slider rewards a strict one-at-a-time discipline:

1. Deaf announces a single color.
2. Mute gives exactly one instruction: up or down.
3. Blind moves that one slider fully and confirms ("done").
4. Proceed to the next color only after the move is confirmed.

Confirm the move before the next color. Racing through two sliders before the first is confirmed is how a group plants the wrong direction and watches all four reset.

A Gesture Code Helps

The sliders carry no labels, so teams usually agree on a tiny per-color code to keep the calls unambiguous — for example thumbs-up for up, a thumbs-down for down, one color at a time. Loud-table teams sometimes prefer full words; either works as long as every slider move is confirmed before the next one.

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