Exploding Kittens: how do you play and why is it so popular?

Card game has become most backed project of all time on global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter

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A card game for people who are "into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats" has become the most backed project of all time on global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.

The makers of "Exploding Kittens" had hoped to raise $10,000 to help turn their homemade concept into reality. But the project quickly gained the highest ever number of supporters on the website, with almost 220,000 people pledging $8.8m (£5.7m) by the time the 30-day campaign closed. It also became the third most funded Kickstarter project of all time.

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