This moment, as exciting as it is, fully displays the flaws of Exploding Kittens. Then comes a point where it seems inevitable, and everyone plays all of their cards, in the hopes of avoiding their imminent demise. This aligns with the gameplay of Exploding Kittens, where players hold onto their cards until they believe they’re going to explode. As such when it gets smaller, the tension rises as the chance of you exploding on your next draw increases. This creates a fantastic visual metaphor where the deck slimming down is the fuse before someone explodes. You know there are bomb cards throughout the deck, but you don’t know where they are. The original game It’s the final countdown!Įxploding Kittens feels like the ticking of the timebomb about to explode. The last un-blown-up player remaining wins. It’s here you must pray to the Lord of Cats and Explosions.Īs if you draw an exploding kitten, you must discard your defuse card, or you’re out of the game. But as soon as you’re done, you’ll have to draw a card from the deck. Or discarding any five cards, and grabbing one from the discard pile.ĭuring your turn, you can play as many cards, or perform as many of these actions as you want.Discarding three of the same card, and getting a card of your choice from another player.Discarding two of the same card, and stealing a card from another player.Thankfully, you can rid yourself of these cards by: These other cards range from forcing the next player to take multiple turns in a row, to letting you peak at the top of the deck to see what cards are coming, but mostly these cards will have no ability.

Now, each player starts a game of Exploding Kittens with a hand of cards containing one cat-bomb-defusal card. Becoming a new board gamer, and getting others to play with you is always easier through a game and theme that everyone enjoys. With that said, even though I don’t like Exploding Kittens, if you’re new to board gaming and like the exploding cats. The game design isn’t as sharp or snappy as it needs to be to compete with today’s board games. Outside of the Oatmeal’s art and humour, which are both great. Laying all my cards on the table, I’m not a fan of Exploding Kittens.

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