If the player draws any card other than an Exploding Kitten they will add the card to their hand and play will pass to the next player clockwise. Once a player has finished playing cards they will draw the top card from the draw pile (unless they played a card that allows them not to draw a card). Players can play as many cards as they want. They will get to take a card from one of the other player’s hands.

This player has played two no instruction cards. You will then have the ability to randomly draw one card from the chosen player’s hand and add it to your own hand. When you play a pair of no instruction cards you will choose one of the other players. To play cards without instructions you must play two cards of the same type. When you play a card that has instructions on it you will follow the instructions after playing the card.

Any card you play will be added to the discard pile. These cards will form the draw pile for the game.Ī player begins their turn with the option of playing a card(s).

Shuffle the remaining cards and place them face down in the middle of the table.

Any extra Exploding Kitten cards are returned to the box.

Add a number of Exploding Kitten cards back to the deck equal to the number of players minus one.

The remaining Defuse cards are added back to the deck.

Each player takes one of the Defuse cards that were set aside.

Shuffle the remaining deck and deal four cards face down to each player.

Remove all of the Exploding Kittens cards (4) and the Defuse (6) cards from the deck.

How to Play | My Thoughts | Should You Buy? | Comments How to Play Exploding Kittens Setup Exploding Kittens relies on a lot of luck and is kind of random, but I was genuinely surprised that there is more to the game than I originally expected. I normally would have ignored the game entirely, but I found a copy of the game at a thrift store for $0.50 and as a bargain shopper I thought it was worth giving it a shot at that price. I originally heard about the game during its Kickstarter campaign, but I never gave it much thought as I always thought it was just popular for being popular.

The game quickly received a lot of buzz on the internet eventually leading to the game getting over $8 million in preorders. First launched in January of 2015 Exploding Kittens was only hoping to raise around $10,000. I bring this up because today I am looking at one of the biggest success stories in the history of Kickstarter. Some of the biggest projects on the site have come from card and board games. In recent years a good source for finding financing for board game projects has been Kickstarter.

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