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

Fun and hilarious game! Easy to learn, full of surprises, and perfect for family game nights. Highly recommend 👌

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

So I bought this game for thee reasons.1. I like the website The Oatmeal.2. It got great reviews.3. Two of my boys (8 & 11) thought the name was hilarious.So how does it live up?On reason 1, it most certainly lives up. If you like The Oatmeal and the humor and artwork found there you will get a kick out of the game. Though we bought the PG version, so the humor will be on the potty side, but relatively safe. It's funny and silly.Reason 2, well I can see why it got good reviews, but I could also see why it got some poor ones. The game play is very much dependent on you and those you play with. My boys spent most of the time giggling and hoarding cards. They were reluctant to play anything, which made it annoying at times. You have to play this game like you would play Munchkin, and the main point of Munchkin is to screw over the other players. It seems to me the game is meant to be fast paced and played for fun. Put down card that helps yourself, but stabs your fellow player's in the back. Otherwise it will be boring and annoying.Reason 3, yes the name is funny, and so are the cards. See the aforementioned giggling.In the game you end your turn by drawing a card, which could be something good and useful, or an Exploding Kitten. An exploding Kitten puts you out of the game so you don't what that.The game may go something like this, on your turn you play the card, feast upon a unicorn enchilada and gain its enchilada powers (see the future). This allow you to see the next three cards. You notice the second card is an Exploding kitten. So you play, deploy the thousand-year back hair (attack card), ending your turn without drawing a card and forcing player 2 to play two turns. Player 3 plays, feed your opponent a nope sandwich with extra nopesause (nope card, can be played at anytime). Thus negating your attack card. You figure oh well and draw your card ending your turn knowing you are safe, for now. Player 2 plays, don the portable cheetah butt (skip card) and ends their turn without drawing a card. Player 3 plays a pair of, tacocats, which allows them to pick a player and pick a card from their hand. Player 3 then plays, a plague of bat farts descends from the sky (shuffle). So they shuffle the deck until someone says stop, and so on.Like I said, funny and silly, but only if you are kid, a kid at heart, or maybe even drunk.

Grandchildren requested. First couple rounds involved a lot of reading each card to learn its value in the game. The more we played the more fun it became.7 and up was an appropriate rating for us.

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.

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.

Exploding kittens is a FANTASTIC game! It's great fun and the best thing about it is that you can play with ANYONE, unlike say Cards Against Humanity - which can upset some folks. Exploding Kittens works for larger and smaller groups, but we did end up buying a second pack to expand the game to larger groups or say 9. Although a few times before the second pack arrived, we actually had a great time playing with mixed couples (with those that had played before and those hadn't). Once you've had a few drinks and played a round or two it can get really competitive and you start to get a bit strategic and start ganging up on people haha!If I am correct it was the quickest funded Kickstarter in history, from the creators on the Oatmeal. The illustrations and are weird and hilarious. The concept of the game is to not explode basically. I won't spell out how to play the game in this review, because I'm sure there are other reviews that do it better than I do, and the game comes with a little leaflet that explains things really well and also encourages you to go online and watch a "how to play" video. Depending on your strategy, you might go for pairs more or keep as many NOPE cards as you can. Everyone has their idea of how best to play.The one thing we did, is put both of our sets into one box, but broke them out into the two sets - because otherwise the game pace changes if you play with 2 sets for a smaller group. It doesn't "flow" as well with the one set as it does two. We kept the instructions though so we cna count out if needed again how many of each card goes per set.Buy it and you won't be disappointed! great fun!

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.