It seemed too simple but I gave it a shot with hopes that it would be more than just a simple game of Russian Roulette but with cards. However, with little strategy, lots of spite, and the elimination element it lacks a lot of replayability for my group.Īt first I was a bit skeptical about this game.

It is a very ridiculous game that is okay for big groups, and it fits easily into your pocket. The tension does build the more you draw, and after someone defuses a cat.

It is very random since the cards you start with vary, and the draw deck is random. Games are quick, but the first person out had to wait 15-20mins for the next game. I didn’t like the elimination part at all. I played this game with 2 decks and 10 players and it was fun-ish. The other cat cards can combine to select a card of your choice from the discard, or to steal from an opponent. Other cards shuffle the deck, make a player take 2 turns, negate another players action, skip your turn, see the next 3 cards, or take 1 card from another player. After you defuse an exploding kitten, you are able to put that exploding cat back into the draw pile, secretly, in any order you like. You may play cards but then you need to draw 1 card. Each player starts with a hand of cards that includes 1 defuse. You lose when you draw an exploding kitten and cannot defuse it. Like I said earlier, this game is a combo of Uno and Russian Roullette. You and the fellow players are currently locked in a room in the old wizard’s castle (why did you go in there?) with a pile of cats and can only leave when the last explosive cat has been detonated. A select few of these cats became critically unstable and will explode when they come into contact with humans. Many of them returned and became enticed by modern pop culture and began developing unusual lifestyles. The mightiest kings and queens fought the evil wizard, and managed to defeat his cat army, but not before he sent some cats into an alternate dimension for some reason. This game doesn’t really have a story so I will make one:ġ000 years ago an evil wizard terrorized the land with his demonic cat army. This game takes the card actions of uno and combines it with the building tension of Russian Roulette.

How to play exploding kittens