If you draw an exploding kitten card, you MUST play a defuse card from your hand. There’s one basic rule in Exploding Kittens - last man standing wins. In our house we’re very partial to adding the imploding kitten card to our game - but the original game still provides a can’t-miss family game night, and we’re just going to focus on the original rules in this article.
You can add Imploding Kittens, Streaking Kittens, and Barking Kittens. To date there are also 3 expansion packs you can add to the game - and it’s really fun to see the game continue to get support in that way. In the past it’s appeared on our list of the best family card games, and the best games for cat lovers, but if any game in our collection deserves a featured article it’s Exploding Kittens. I like to write about games we love, and it’s high time this recent classic gets highlighted. And all these years later (the Kickstarter was in 2015) we’re going to make it our Game of the Month for August 2023. Was it the funny name? The zany art? Was the outright irreverence of the whole concept just the perfect match made in heaven for the general demographics of Kickstarter? Who’s to say?Īll I can say for certain is that they were all absolutely right to invest, and that Exploding Kittens is a certified hit. I can’t say for sure how or why 219,000 people knew that Exploding Kittens was a good investment.
