Exploding Kittens
| "A card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats" | |
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| Designer(s) | Elan Lee, Shane Small |
| Illustrator(s) | Matthew Inman |
| Publisher(s) | The Oatmeal |
| Publication date | July 2015 |
| Genre(s) | Card game |
| Language(s) | English |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Age range | 7+ |
| Setup time | < 1 min |
| Playing time | 15 min |
| Website | explodingkittens.com |
Exploding Kittens is a card game designed by Elan Lee, Shane Small, and Matthew Inman from the comics site The Oatmeal. Originally proposed as a Kickstarter project seeking US$10,000 in crowdfunding, it exceeded the goal in eight minutes and on January 27, 2015, seven days after opening, it passed 106,000 backers setting the record for most backers in Kickstarter history. At completion on February 19, 2015, it had $8,782,571 USD in pledges by 219,382 backers. The campaign ended as the fourth most funded campaign on the crowdfunding site. The first play test of Exploding Kittens was recorded on YouTube by Smosh Games, who had the first deck. The backers started receiving delivery in late July 2015; all backers received the game by September 2015.
According to the website, the game is "essentially Russian Roulette; you draw cards until you draw an Exploding Kitten, at which point you explode and lose." A player may play as many or as few cards as they choose during their turn, but must end their turn by drawing a card.
The card types are as follows:
The deck contains multiple cards of each type, but they are distinguished from each other by unique flavor text.
An expansion deck titled Imploding Kittens was released in 2016. It contains the following cards:
Exploding Kittens has become the third biggest Kickstarter campaign of all-time, raising $8.8m on the crowdfunding website. In just its first day Exploding Kittens earned nearly $1.3m and grew to nearly 35k backers. By day 3 the project was over 80k backers raising over $3m. The creators of the game were initially trying to raise just 10,000 USD, but ended up getting 219,382 backers on the crowdfunding website.
On February 3, 2015, achievements were announced in lieu of stretch goals because the game designers did not want to delay production or distribution of the game to backers. As of February 16, 2015, 30 achievements had been unlocked and the second stretch goal (Unlock 20 Achievements) and third stretch goal (Unlock 30 Achievements) were completed. With the first stretch goal accomplished, the company expanded the NSFW deck to a full stand-alone game. The second stretch goal gave an upgraded storage box which holds two full decks of cards to all backers of the campaign, and the third and final stretch goal includes a Kickstarter-exclusive surprise in the box.
Exploding Kittens began shipping to Kickstarter backers in late July 2015.
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