In April, 2022, Netflix announced that a video game and an adult animated series based on the game were in development. There are a variety of cards in the core deck, as well as many more in multiple expansion packs and additional full decks. On a player's turn, they can play as many of the cards they have in their hand as they want (or none at all!), and then draw a card from the draw pile to end their turn. There are numerous different cards that lessen players' chances of exploding. This continues until only one player remains, and is declared the winner. Should this happen, they 'explode' and lose the game (unless they can use a Defuse card). Players then take turns drawing cards from the deck until somebody draws an Exploding Kitten. All Exploding Kittens and remaining cards are then shuffled into a face-down deck.
When beginning the game, players start with at an identical number of cards, including one Defuse card for each. Originating as a Kickstarter project and exceeding its goal in eight minutes, it went on to become the most backed project in Kickstarter history.
Exploding Kittens is a card game created by Matthew Inman (from The Oatmeal), Elan Lee, and Shane Small.
