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  • Question
    Should there always be two piles of cards?
    Community Answer
    Yes, a pile to draw from and a discard pile.
  • Question
    What about the see the future cards?
    Community Answer
    See the future cards are what the name suggests: you can peek at the top three cards (but NO REARRANGING THEM). After you've played that card, you still have to draw to end your turn, unless you play a skip or an attack.
  • Question
    When eliminated by the exploding kitten card how is it returned to the deck?
    Community Answer
    When a player draws an exploding kitten without holding a defuse card, that player is eliminated from the game. All of their cards, including the exploding kitten are discarded.
  • Question
    If I play a pair, I get to select a card from a player. Do I pick another card from the pile?
    Community Answer
    If you play a pair of cards (assuming both cards are the same) you can select a card from a player at random. You still have to draw from the pile to end your turn, unless you play a skip or an attack.
  • Question
    What will happen if I don't discard?
    Higen Duncan
    Community Answer
    Nothing. You can play/discard as many cards as you want, or none at all. To end your turn, draw a card or play a Skip or Attack.
  • Question
    Can I play a single cat card, or do I have to play them in pairs?
    Higen Duncan
    Community Answer
    There must be 2 TacoCats, Hairy Potato Cats, etc. played at the same time to steal from another player. However, in advanced play, you can alternatively play 2 of any card of your choice, and steal a random card. This goes for all combos.
  • Question
    If I play five of a kind, do I need to draw from the draw pile after I have chosen a card form the discard pile?
    Community Answer
    You still have to draw from the pile to end your turn, unless you play a skip or an attack.
  • Question
    Do you draw after using a favor card?
    Bookteanblanket12
    Community Answer
    Yes. You always draw after your turn unless you’re exploded and don’t have defuse or you play a skip or attack.
  • Question
    When you use a "Personal Attack" card or an "Attack" card and I put exploding kitten, will I or the player explode?
    Rainy
    Top Answerer
    When you use an attack card, you skip your turn (meaning you don't draw a card) and force someone else to take two turns instead. So if they draw an exploding kitten, they explode, and you're safe.
  • Question
    Does the exploding kitten go back into the drawing pile on the physical version too, or just mobile?
    Rainy
    Top Answerer
    Yes, this is true for all versions of the game. In the physical version you can put it wherever you want — on the top, bottom, middle, etc.
  • Question
    Do you pick a card after cards: "see a future card", "shuffle" or "favor", and "triples"?
    Rainy
    Top Answerer
    Unless the card instructs you to draw, you do not draw an extra card when using it. But you still have to draw one card to end your turn.
  • Question
    What happens if I play a nope card and then someone else plays a nope on that nope?
    Rainy
    Top Answerer
    Then it becomes a yep, which undoes your nope. But you can nope the yep, and then yep the nope, etc. The only thing you can't nope is an exploding kitten or a defuse.
  • Question
    Can I hold on to the explode card without telling the other players?
    Rainy
    Top Answerer
    Technically yes, you could do this. But it would be considered cheating, just like lying about your cards during Go Fish.
  • Question
    Can I shuffle the cards if the last card left in the pile is the exploding kitten ?
    Rainy
    Top Answerer
    You can technically use a shuffle, but it won't do you any good. It's better to use a skip, attack, or targeted attack to avoid drawing a card.
  • Question
    What do you mean by playing any cards you want?
    BelgianWaffles
    Community Answer
    On your turn, you may however many or few cards as you wish, and then draw a card.
  • Question
    What if I have two cards that are the same but have instructions on them?
    BelgianWaffles
    Community Answer
    If you are playing with special combos, you may use any two cards of the same type as if they were a pair of cat cards. This applies to all special combos.
  • Question
    What should I do if draw run out?
    Community Answer
    The draw pile should never run out of cards since there will always be at least one exploding kitten left.
  • Question
    What if you get to the end of the deck and there Are two cards and one person has 2 diffuses? Do you shuffle the discard deck back in?
    BelgianWaffles
    Community Answer
    You should never run out of cards to draw because there will always be at least one exploding kitten left. When you defuse an exploding kitten, simply put it back into the draw pile wherever you like.
  • Question
    Can you use a defuse card on a non-exploding kitten card?
    BelgianWaffles
    Community Answer
    In a standard game, no. However, a popular house rule is to treat defuses as an alternative nope card.
  • Question
    Can you combine a feral cat card or two with another cat card to be a three of a kind?
    BelgianWaffles
    Community Answer
    Yes. You can also use them in the five card special combo (but only as itself).
  • Question
    What do I do if I run out of cards?
    Community Answer
    If you run out of cards, there are no special actions to take. Keep drawing, you draw at least one extra card in your turn.
  • Question
    What does a favor card do?
    Community Answer
    If you have a favour in your hand, you can then ask another player to give you a card of their choice.
  • Question
    What does the nope card do?
    Community Answer
    It cancels a card played before. You can play nope card even when this is not your turn.
  • Question
    If I put an attack card and the next person puts an attack card and the next person puts a nope card, are the two attack cards effectively stopped? And whose is the next turn?
    Community Answer
    Since the rules state that for Nopes, "imagine that any card beneath a Nope card never existed", the person who played the second attack would have to take 2 turns.
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