Grimble's Clockwork Surprise
Wire defuse puzzle
Medium
By
Bookwyrm
A ticking gnomish bomb and a manual only one of you can read.
Grimble the tinker never builds anything simple. His parting gift is a brass clockwork bomb with four wires, a stamped serial plate and a row of little ward lamps. The instructions came separately, folded small, in Grimble's cramped hand.
Gears whirr and a brass hand creeps around the dial. Four wires, one serial plate, five little lamps.