Nope – play this card to stop any person’s action eg if a player uses an attack then anyone can then place a ‘Nope’ card to cancel that card.

See the Future – look at the next 3 cards.

Favor – force any other player to give you a card of their choice.

Skip – end your turn without having to pick up a card.

Attack – end your turn without picking up a card and force the next player to take 2 turns.

It could be put back on the top for the next player to pick up, or they can count a set number of cards to try and target a specific player or they can place it randomly.Įvery other card aside from the exploding kittens and the diffuse cards will help you avoid being obliterated by an exploding kitten. Playing a diffuse card stops the kitten exploding but then that player must place the kitten anywhere back in the deck – and this is the fun part, they can do it however they want to and without anyone seeing. If you pick up an exploding kitten then you die… unless you have a diffuse card to stop it from exploding. You can also just choose to pick up a card to end your turn without playing one first. They can then choose to place more cards down or end their turn by picking a new card from the deck. The first player places any of their cards face up on the table and carries out the instructions on the card. The remaining cards are then dealt out to give every player a hand of 5 cards and then the kittens are shuffled into the deck. You remove all the exploding kittens and all the diffuse cards from the pack and deal a single diffuse to each player.

a four player game would have three kittens in the deck. The set-up is as simple as the premise and varies slightly depending how many players there are as you have to make sure there are enough exploding kittens to ensure only one player can win – i.e. If you explode then you lose, if you don’t explode then you win.

In a nutshell, Exploding Kittens is a mixture between the classic card game Old Maid and Russian Roulette – there’s a ‘bad’ card that you don’t want to be left with at the end that card being an exploding kitten that you’re unable to diffuse. The game is easy to set up and the instructions also reference a YouTube video with the instructions and set up guides (see below). Or, to give it it’s full description it is “A card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.” We’re big fans of all of those so were more than happy to review it! Exploding Kittens, as the name would suggest, is a card game about exploding kittens.

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