The original Exploding Kittens proved to be a spark that spawned a variety of versions, expansions, and entirely separate games like Poetry for Neanderthals and Throw Throw Burrito. That game - also called Exploding Kittens, coincidentally enough - began as a record-setting Kickstarter campaign in January of 2015, raising $8.8 million from nearly 220,000 supporters. Let's entertain each other a little bit and use a card game as the mechanism to do that.' 'And I - with my partner Matt - started Exploding Kittens specifically to get away from that, to get away from the screen. 'My background is in video games,' Exploding Kittens CEO and co-founder Elan Lee tells in a discussion at the Collision conference in Toronto.
