You and a friend will first remove four cards from the deck: the eponymous Exploding Kitten, and three Defuse cards, giving one of the latter three to each player and shuffling the third back into the deck. First things first: as its title states, this edition is exclusively for two players, aged 7 and up. Like its big brother, playing the self-styled “russian roulette” of the Exploding Kittens 2- Player Version is simplicity itself. Exploding Kittens, the immensely popular kitten-powered fun-fest returns in an even tighter, more compact experience than ever before! By now, the original game – garnering nearly 220,000 backers on its initial Kickstarter release – speaks for itself, and this version is simply a smaller, duo-focused package, so let’s run through the rules for this pocket-sized Exploding Kittens two-player edition.
