Ages 7 . The game is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game- unless that player has a Defuse card, which can efuse the Kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the desk are used to move, mitigate, or avid the Exploding Kittens.