Okay, picture this. You draw cards. One of them explodes a kitten. That’s it. That’s the game.
People love how fast this teaches. Two minutes, tops. I like that too. I don’t want to talk for half an hour about a card game with cats in it.
It’s a solid Uno alternative if your group is bored of yelling “Uno” and starting fights over stacking rules. The “Nope!” card is the real star. You can cancel anything, anytime. It’s basically legalized teasing.
Reviewers do say it’s mostly luck. No deep strategy here. I won’t pretend it’s a masterpiece of design. But as one of the easy games for kids, it just works. My own kids laughed way too hard at a card called a “laser pointer.”
Small gripe from the crowd: it gets old after a while without extra cards. Fair. But for a quick laugh before dinner, nobody’s really complaining.
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