7 rules to excel at Exploding Kittens

Sam Decrock
5 min readAug 11, 2015

Or how not to explode the first time

Last Monday my colleague @RobbyWauters received his game of Exploding Kittens - the Kickstarter project from Xbox legend Elan Lee, famous illustrator of The Oatmeal and Shane Small. The initial backing target was $ 10K and they reached an amazing $ 8M.

The Exploding Kittens experience started when the delivery note personally addressed Robby and our office street (Gaston Crommenlaan). The unboxing happiness continued when the box meowed upon opening… So hilarious! So cute!

Not a day has passed without at least 3 games! It’s that addictive. It’s like UNO but with more kittens. And more (N)SFW jokes.

We’ve been keeping a leader board and for some reason I seem to be at the top. So here are some tips and tricks I’ve learned in the past few days:

Rule 1 — Grab as many cards as you can

As long as you have a Defuse card, grab as many cards as you can. Don’t play any card unless you really have to. The more cards…

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Sam Decrock

Hardware and software (reverse) engineer. Passionate about new technologies. samdecrock.be