The shelf Exploding Kittens
Exploding Kittens
Russian roulette with a deck of cards, and kittens.
- Players
- 2–5 players
- Time
- 15 min
- Weight
- Very light
- Year
- 2015
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Why it lands at the table
Exploding Kittens is a short card game from the creator of The Oatmeal. The deck holds a few exploding kittens; draw one and you are out, unless you have a defuse card.
That simple threat makes every draw a small event. Players peek at the top of the deck, skip turns, shuffle, attack the next person, and try to make someone else take the bad card. The art is silly and the rules fit on a single sheet.
It plays in about fifteen minutes and the table is rarely quiet. The remembered moment is a defuse card played with great ceremony, and the kitten slipped back into the deck exactly where the next player will find it.
How it plays
- 01
Deal each player a hand and a defuse card, then shuffle the exploding kittens into the deck.
- 02
On your turn, play as many cards as you like, or none.
- 03
End your turn by drawing a card.
- 04
If you draw an exploding kitten, play a defuse and hide it back in the deck, or you are out.
- 05
The last player left wins.
Good for
- Two to five players, any experience
- A fifteen-minute opener or closer
- A laugh while a longer table finishes
See it on the table
Video by Exploding Kittens, played through youtube-nocookie.com. Nothing from YouTube loads until you press play. Open on YouTube (new tab)
More of it
(full size, new tab)- Type
- Base game
- Designer
- Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, Shane Small
- Publisher
- Exploding Kittens
- Mode
- Competitive
- Edition
- English edition
Written from: en.wikipedia.org.