Ultimately, it raised $8.7 million from 219,382 backers.

By Day 4, it had raised more than $3,500,000 from more than 91,000 backers. It launched with an initial goal of US$10,000, but by the end of the first day, the campaign had raised $1,333,586 from nearly 35,000 backers. ( July 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īs of 2015, Exploding Kittens stood as the third-biggest campaign ever mounted on Kickstarter. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. If a player draws an Exploding Kitten card, they must show it immediately and they are out of the game, unless they have a Defuse card. Played cards are put into a discard pile. Players are not to tell any other player what cards are in their hand. A turn order is decided upon any trivial condition.Įach player may then play as many cards from their hand as they like on their turn, or choose not to do so, before drawing a card. The remaining Defuse cards are then also put back in the deck. The Exploding Kitten cards are then shuffled back into the deck so that the number of Exploding Kitten cards in the deck is one less than the number of players. The deck is shuffled and each player draws 4 cards and takes a Defuse card. Exploding Kittens is described as a “strategic card game about cats and destruction”.Īll cards are put into a deck, except for the Defuse and Exploding Kitten cards. Delivery to backers started in late July 2015 all backers received the game by September 2015. The first play test of Exploding Kittens was recorded on YouTube by Smosh Games, who had the first deck. The campaign ended as the fourth most-funded campaign on the crowdfunding site.

At completion on February 19, 2015, it had US$8,782,571 in pledges by 219,382 backers. On January 27, 2015, after seven days, it passed 103,000 backers setting the record for the most backers in Kickstarter history. Beginning as a Kickstarter project seeking US$10,000 in crowdfunding, it exceeded its goal in eight minutes. Exploding Kittens is a casual dedicated deck card game designed by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal webcomic, Elan Lee and Shane Small, and first published by The Oatmeal in 2015.