"It's like Uno, except there are goats, magical enchiladas and kittens that can kill you"
Created by Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel), Exploding Kittens made Kickstarter history in early 2015 when over 219,000 people backed the project.
The game is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an exploding kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game – unless that player has a defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the exploding kittens.
Time: 15 minute game
Players: 2-5
Ages: 7 and up.
