No 06
Exploding Kittens is a card game that takes two minutes to learn and plays like Russian roulette with cats: draw cards, avoid the exploding kitten, use the absurd action cards to make someone else draw it. The art is by The Oatmeal and the jokes land with nine-year-olds and thirty-year-olds the same way.
It is the stocking stuffer for a son or daughter, the game a brother and sister play on a car trip, and the gift for a friend group that wants something quick between the long games. It travels in a coat pocket.
Two to five players, ages seven and up, and the expansions let more people in. Under twenty dollars for the card game most likely to come out at a restaurant table while waiting for food.
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