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Cardgame for 2-5 players that was successfully Kickstarted in 2015. "It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette."

A fast game in which you try to avoid the kittens to trigger an explosion killing you in the process (despite the title, the kittens are unharmed).

Each turn you can play as much cards as you like (probably ending your turn or giving an other player several turns to survive). The last action is to draw a card. If this is an exploding kitten, you need to defuse it else you are out of luck.

The rules are expanded in 2017 to include more players (max 10).

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Running out of cards in Exploding Kittens

In the Exploding Kittens game, the rules say You won't ever run out of cards in the Draw Pile, so there is never any need for a reshuffle. In every game I've played all the cards end up on the discard pile fairly quickly and there is nothing left…
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Can I Nope a Defuse?

If Alice draws an Exploding Kitten which she tries to Defuse, can Bob Nope that, making the kitten explode and eliminate Alice? At the time of asking, I had only played it once, an hour before. As it wasn't my own game, I had no access to the rule…
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Playing pairs of non-cat cards

I am unclear on a detail. Can I play a pair of cards with instructions (such as shuffles)? From the instructions: "If you play matching pairs with no instructions on them,....". It seems like there might be "advanced rules" where this is…
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How do I tell if a game is counterfeit?

There's one of those cheap random items/party supplies stores at the local mall that sells copies of Exploding Kittens for $10 each. It's a bargain price - it's $15 on Amazon here in Australia, $40ish at most FLGS. So that makes me suspect that…
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Do you need to show what you draw?

I've had exploding kittens for a while but haven't really played it because every time I try to play, nobody really knows whether they are supposed to keep what they draw secret or show it to everybody to prove it isn't an exploding kitten. Are you…
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Exploding kittens. How many turns can an attack card "really" skip?

Scenario: P1 plays attack P2 plays attack. P3 has 4 turns on her. P3 plays a turn and draws a card. P3 has 3 turns left. P3 plays her attack. What happens?
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Playing Nope on a Double Slap after it has been played

If a person plays Double Slap on me, can I use the triple card combo to steal someone else's Nope card, then play that Nope card on the Double Slap to avoid drawing?
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Number of "Nope"-cards played after each other in Exploding Kittens

How many "Nope"-cards can be played after each "Nope"-card? E.g.: Player A -> Attack Player B -> Nope Player C -> Nope Player D -> Nope or can only 2 "Nope"-cards be played after each other? Is there a limit?
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What do I do if there’s only one card left and I need to draw four because of attack cards?

If there's only one card left and someone needs to draw 4 because of attack cards, what do I do? Do I draw put a defuse down and then draw again or what?
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Giving an Exploding Kitten to another player's hand through Barking Kitten

Barking Kitten allows me to give cards of my own hand to another player's hand after they chose half of their own cards to give to me. Holding a Streaking Kitten together with an Exploding Kitten in my hand, this would allow me to give the other…
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Nope card following a chain of Attack Cards

In a game of Exploding Kittens, what happens when a chain of attack cards is terminated by a Nope card? For example; Player A plays an Attack card Player B plays an Attack card Player C plays an Attack card Player D plays a Nope card What happens…
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Exploding Kittens- Slap to get out of multiple turns

What I’m trying to find out is: If you get slapped (let’s say triple), And you play something in-between (you don’t currently have a slap in your hand), e.g. an alter the future and put another slap on top, Can you now play that slap to push the…
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End turn by Drawing from Bottom card after Triple Slap?

By the rules of Exploding Kitten (Party Pack). If the slapped player put another slap, it will be added. (e.g: player 1 put double slap, player 2 put triple slap, total is 5 slaps to be done by the targeted player) We had a situation where one of us…
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What happens to exploded kittens?

If I am eliminated by an exploding kitten, the instructions say to discard all my cards, including the kitten. So they go to the discard pile. Now, if I play a combo of five cards, can I take the kitten from the discard pile? And if so, what happens…
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Effect of nope card mid attack

Playing exploding kittens and the game is unclear about the effect of nope cards mid attack. If a player has already drawn one of their attack and it's a nope, can they play it? What happens?
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