Exploding Kittens Original Edition, 2-5 Players, Ages 7+ Card Game

This game is so fun! We played it for the first time today with our two kiddos, ages 8 and 10. It was very easy to learn and each game is very quick. By the second game everyone had a pretty good grasp of it. Our kids loved it, and of course they were quickly attacking each other with their cards once they figured out how! They are already wanting to play again tomorrow. Our family has a ton of games and we love to play them often. I can already tell that this one will be one of our favorites for years to come!

Fun for the whole family , high quality very easy to learn and just overall a nice way to play with your family

My kids love this game! They’re always laughing when playing. We take it to family parties to play with their cousins too. Everyone loves it!

I played this game with my spouse and some friends and was soon bored-- I echo a lot of the sentiment in the one-star reviews. It's basically a game of hot potato or musical chairs. Basically, don't get caught with an exploding kitten. If you do, you better hope that you have a defuse card. That's it. And of course, that seems boring. The other cards-- which allow you to cancel other players' actions, steal other player's cards, see the future, and force other players to swallow your risk of drawing the exploding kitten-all seem stupid and ineffective compared to a defuse card. BUT don't let that fool you. If the other players expend themselves to collect all the defuse cards, steal them! Or if you know where the exploding kitten is, you can force the other players to attack. Or if someone is doing this stuff to you, you can cancel their actions. Beware if they cancel your cancellation! You might have to cancel their cancellation of your cancel. Yes, the first run was boring as hell. My spouse kept wanting to play the game and I kept biting my cheek. But then I discovered that there is more strategy than meets the eye. Yes, there's chance, but there usually is in most board and card games. It really wouldn't be a card game without some element of chance. But it's not ALL chance. Where do you put the exploding kitten once you've drawn it and defused it? You can force the next player to draw it, but maybe they would expect that. You have to play against the other players, trying to figure out what they would do, or how you think they are going to play. It's not as straightforward as it seems. So I like it now, and I'm the one initiating game play. However, it still is not as interesting as I expected when we backed it on kickstarter. There was a lot of hype, and it's not as complex a game as I hoped for. It's still a solid game, and do recommend it. The artwork on the cards is a lot of fun to read during the game-- especially the exploding kittens cards-- but I don't know if I'd let kids play with it. I guess it depends on your kids. Most of the cards are fine, but some of them are just a little bit off-- unsurprising from the author of the Oatmeal. They're a little bit akin to Ren & Stimpy cartoons. If you'd let your kid watch Ren & Stimpy, then these cards are fine for them. A mom who played the game with us on our initial run said that she wouldn't know how to explain the "thousand year back hair" attack card or the "ask for a back hair shampoo" favor cards to her 8 and 9 year olds. Or "feasting on a unicorn enchilada to gain its enchilada powers". It's nothing truly inappropriate for seven year olds, just a little weird.

Great game instructinos are cleand and cards are of good quality

So many laughs playing this game with my boys. This is our go to game. They were 10 and 11 when we started playing, and still love it 3 years later! It’s very clever. This is our favorite version too.

This is one of my favorite games ever! It is so fun to play, perfect for a family or just playing with your friends!

I was dubious as to whether the 4-year-old would like this as he can’t read the cards but he grasped the meaning of the individual cards instantly as there are only about six different kinds of cards. Don’t know if this is a rule, but when someone defuses an exploding kitten, we put the Defuse card on the discard and the EK card back into the draw pile near the bottom. This ensures that there are lots of EK cards near the bottom of the pile, and the game ends quickly enough to hold the interest of young kids. The rules are minimal, simple, easy to grasp quickly, and you don’t have to follow them precisely to make the game work. There are opportunities for uncomplicated strategies, and ways to make sure young kids win every time (when the kids draw from your hand, make the more desirable cards stand out ). Everyone gets exploded in the end except one person (the winner), and we make the exploding dramatic and fun so that there’s not any sadness about “losing.“ I am ordering a second set of cards to make sure there’s always one handy.

Fun and easy to play, good for groups of friends!

i have been ordering this game since past 3 weeks from amazon everytime there was an issue of missing cards and today finallyyyy i recieved the right product with all the cards cant wait to play this evening......

I was expecting something bigger for all that money.

Se da ragazzino odiavi il famigerato +4 e l'amico infame che lo calava per salvarsi, con questo gioco inizierai ad odiare anche i gatti! Trovo questo gioco molto divertente, facile da apprendere e veloce da giocare. Un gioco alla portata di tutti, riesce a coinvolgere anche quell'amico che tutti hanno nella compagnia, che odia i giochi di società. La confezione è davvero ben fatta e curata nei dettagli, anche la qualità delle carte è buona. All'interno si trova il manuale con le istruzioni 2 mazzi contenenti le carte da gioco e un codice promo per degli sconti o per alcuni avatar esclusivi per il gioco per smartphone. Il prezzo non è dei più bassi trattandosi di un gioco di carte, però c'è da dire che essendo nato da un progetto di crowdfunding è normale che i prezzi siano leggermente più alti della media. E' un gioco consigliatissimo a tutti, coinvolge fin da subito, e come UNO rovina molte amicizie!

Exploding Kittens ist definitiv kein gewöhnliches Kartenspiel – und genau das macht den Reiz aus. Das Spielprinzip ist herrlich schräg, voller unerwarteter Wendungen und mit einem Humor, der irgendwo zwischen niedlich, absurd und genial liegt. Die Regeln wirken anfangs etwas ungewöhnlich, aber nach einer kurzen Runde ist man drin – und dann geht der Spaß richtig los. Mit jeder Karte wird es taktischer, gemeiner und witziger. Ob "Nope", "See the Future" oder eben der gefürchtete Exploding Kitten – jede Karte sorgt für Lacher und Überraschungen. Insgesamt ein durchdachtes, liebevoll gestaltetes Kartenspiel, das sich angenehm vom Mainstream abhebt. Für alle, die mal etwas anderes als UNO oder Phase 10 suchen – hier wird’s explosiv unterhaltsam.