Games Exploding Kittens 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Exploding Kittens rules Quick-start summary
2–5 players 15 min Age 7+
Original Edition (56 cards, 2025 rules sheet) · Checked against the rulebook, Oct 2026
In short Take turns drawing from a deck hiding Exploding Kittens. Draw one without a Defuse and you're out. Before drawing, play as many cards as you like to peek at the deck, skip your draw, shuffle, steal or push extra turns onto the next player. The last player who hasn't exploded wins.
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Setup 1 Take the 4 Exploding Kittens and the 6 Defuses out of the deck. Give every player 1 Defuse. 2 Shuffle 2 of the leftover Defuses back into the deck (with 5 players, only 1 is left over) and put any others back in the box. 3 Shuffle and deal 7 cards to each player, so everyone starts with 8 cards. Keep your hand secret. 4 Faster game for 2 or 3 players (optional): before adding the Kittens, remove about a third of the deck at random, without looking at it. 5 Shuffle in Exploding Kittens equal to one fewer than the number of players, and put the rest back in the box. 6 Put the deck face down as the draw pile, leaving room for a discard pile, and choose who goes first. Rules sheet, side 1: Setup
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How a turn works Play or pass Play one card (or combo) at a time, face up on the discard pile, and do what each says. Play as many as you like, or none at all.
Draw End your turn by drawing the top card of the draw pile, unless a card like Skip or Attack ends it for you. Draw an Exploding Kitten and you must Defuse it or you're out. Then play passes clockwise.
Nope, any time Anyone may play a Nope to cancel an action before it happens, even on someone else's turn. A Nope can't stop an Exploding Kitten or a Defuse.
Rules sheet, side 1: Taking Your Turn; side 2: Nope
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How to win You're out when you draw an Exploding Kitten and can't Defuse it. You win when:
Every other player has exploded
Rules sheet, side 1: Ending the Game
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Rules people get wrong Only a Defuse saves you from an Exploding Kitten. A Skip, Nope or Shuffle can't. Playing cards is optional, but you still draw to end your turn unless a card ends it for you. One Skip only cancels half an Attack. Any 2 cards with the same title make a pair, not just Cat Cards. When you play a Favor, the other player chooses which card to give you. 9
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Last checked Oct 2026 · Report an error
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