So a few months ago I threw some money at a Kickstarter campaign called Exploding Kittens because it seemed cool. I was right. The game is amazingly simple to play and made by peoplegeeks who understand exactly what makes a great card game or any game for that matter. Created by Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel), Exploding Kittens made history when it became the most-backed game in Kickstarter history and the campaign with the most number of backers, ever. It is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an exploding kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game -- unless that player has a defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, ...