Exploding Kittens Session Report

Kittens do whatever they want. They don't care what their owner is doing or what is going on around them. As innocent and cute as they may seem, they do have a secret plan to destroy us all in the game Exploding Kittens. Kunal, Jun, Erikson and myself decided to sit down together and play a hopefully friendly game.

As the cards were being dealt we went over the rules which were simple enough. As soon as I picked up my cards I found myself just staring at the images and laughing at what the creators had came up with. Some examples being a rare form of cat called "Beard Cat" and attack card in which you awaken the bear-o-dactyl. The first card I played was the "Special-Ops Bunnies" which allowed me to privately view the top three cards to see if there might be an exploding kitten coming up soon. I then drew a card from the deck as to end my turn and live another turn without having a kitten blow me up

The game went on with the Kunal deploying "thousand year back hair" to attack the the person next to them. Erikson had to " don a portable cheetah butt" to skip his turn and not have to draw a card. Jun decided to "rub the belly of a pigacorn" to view the top three cards on the deck.

I then drew the first of the three exploding kittens on the deck. This kitten was about to walk all over the key board of a nuclear missile launcher when I quickly defused the situation by distracting it with a mountain of catnip sandwiches. Whew! Luckily we all started out with at least one defuse for a free life to start out the game.

When the kittens start exploding you must do anything to prevent it. This could mean distracting it via laser pointer or even via kitten therapy to get this homicidal kitten some help. But when you have run out of options to defuse, there is nothing you can do when that cat start munching on the dynamite. 

Jun and I had fallen to these evil kittens and only Erikson and Kunal were left standing to face the wrath of these felines. Only one exploding kitten card was left in the deck of only two left and it was Erikson's turn. He deployed the double "potatoe cat" allowing him to take one card of his choice from the three cards that remained in Kunal's hand. His first pick did not go over well when he picked only a cat variant. Erikson then deployed a double Tacocat allowing him to take one more card from Kunal. What he did not know is the only card remaining in his hand was the final defuse card which he desperately needed to evade the inevitable exploding kitten.

Erikson exploded with his buddy holding a hand grenade and only Kunal survived the exploding kittens.

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