While the Exploding Kittens campaign holds the record for the most backers, other projects have raised more money.Ītop the list is the Coolest Cooler, a party cooler with a built-in blender, waterproof Bluetooth speaker and USB charger.

Notably, nearly all of the backers went for the NSFW version, a nod to people’s love for Cards Against Humanity and other games with high shock value. Players can be saved if they have a “defuse card,’’ which can redirect the kitten using things such as laser pointers and catnip sandwiches.Ī $20 pledge toward the Kickstarter campaign came with the basic 56-card version of the game, while a $35 pledge also included a Not Safe for Work copy of the deck. “Thank you backers, you are the mostestest.’’Įxploding Kittens has been described as a card game version of Russian roulette in which players draw cards until someone draws an exploding kitten card and loses the games. “This is your accomplishment, this is your title, this is your day,’’ posted the Exploding Kittens team on Jan. 4, with 15 days left of the campaign, the project had raised $5.2 million from more than 135,000 backers, shattering a Kickstarter record. Within 20 minutes the project was fully funded.Īs of Feb.

A card game for people “who are into kittens, explosions, laser beams and sometimes goats,” has made history.Ī Kickstarter campaign for the game Exploding Kittens has become the crowd-funding website’s most backed project of all time.Įxploding Kittens creators Elan Lee, Shane Small and Matthew Inman (of Oatmeal comic fame) initially asked for $10,000 to fund the game but quickly discovered they had under-estimated the interest.

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