Components

• 56 cards
• box
• instructions.

Setup

1. Remove the Imploding Kitten 1 from the expansion deck, and all of the Exploding Kittens 4 and Defuse Cards 6 from your main game deck.

2. Combine the 19 remaining expansion cards with the rest of the cards from the main game deck.

   Note: You don't have to play with all of the expansion cards. You can selectively insert your favorite expansion cards into any Exploding Kittens deck.

   Two Player Variant

   Play the game with 1 Exploding Kitten and the Imploding Kitten from the expansion deck. There are now 2 players and 2 ways to die. Whoever dies first loses the game.

3. Deal 7 cards face down to each player.

   Note: If your paper instructions tell you to deal out 6 cards instead of 7, don't believe them. Paper instructions are dirty liars.

4. Deal 1 Defuse Card to each player, for a total hand of 8 cards per player. Keep your hand secret.

5. Insert the Imploding Kitten and enough Exploding Kittens back into the deck, so that the total number of Kittens (Imploding and Exploding) is one fewer than the number of people playing.

6. Remove any extra Exploding Kittens from the game.

   Two Player Variant

   Play the game with 1 Exploding Kitten and the Imploding Kitten from the expansion deck. There are now 2 players and 2 ways to die. Whoever dies first loses the game.

7. Insert any extra Defuse Cards back into the deck.

   Two Player Variant

   Put only 2 of the 4 extra Defuse Cards back into the deck. Remove the other 2 Defuse Cards from the game.

   
   

   Three Player Variant

   Put only 2 of the 3 extra Defuse Cards back into the deck. Remove the remaining Defuse Card from the game.

8. Shuffle the deck and put it face down in the center of the table. This is your Draw Pile.

9. Pick a player to go first, and start playing as usual.