Q&A for How to Play Exploding Kittens

Yes, a pile to draw from and a discard pile.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You still have to draw from the pile to end your turn, unless you play a skip or an attack.

Yes. You always draw after your turn unless you’re exploded and don’t have defuse or you play a skip or attack.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Technically yes, you could do this. But it would be considered cheating, just like lying about your cards during Go Fish.

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.

On your turn, you may however many or few cards as you wish, and then draw a card.

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.

The draw pile should never run out of cards since there will always be at least one exploding kitten left.

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.

In a standard game, no. However, a popular house rule is to treat defuses as an alternative nope card.

Yes. You can also use them in the five card special combo (but only as itself).

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.

If you have a favour in your hand, you can then ask another player to give you a card of their choice.

It cancels a card played before. You can play nope card even when this is not your turn.

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.