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Pretty staggering success story on Kickstarter today as a card game "Exploding Kittens" went up with a goal of raising $10K.  It achieved it in 20 minutes!  It went quickly to $100K in an hourd and over 1 million within the first day.  In its second day it has surpassed 2 million dollars raised and will end being one of the biggest successes on Kickstarter.

What is it? Basically a card game where you play to not lose as Exploding Kittens kick you out of the game, last man standing wins.

Why is it so insanely successful? I put a lot of it behind "The Oatmeal" creator promoting it and doing the artwork. Has a strong and loyal following that have helped make this already have ~56K (and counting) backers.

What do you think? Going to back it?
How far could this go? 3 million? 5 million? 10 million?



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Ka-pi96 said:
Please tell me that kittens don't actually explode in it.


Well, in cartoon form.  No real kittens were harmed in th emaking of this game.



http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens/

Currently trending towards > 34 million US$

Abolutely incredible. Will this be the most successful KS project ever?

Project bookmarked for the next 29 days.



This is the current KIckstarter record holder:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryangrepper/coolest-cooler-21st-century-cooler-thats-actually?ref=most_funded

Can the Exploding Kittens top The Coolest? I say: easily. Go kittens!



$2.3million currently, NSFW deck will now have 40 cards.



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$3 million and new goal is 100k backers. Doable if they add the $1 tier to just support.



This is so wow. A brilliant market idea: simple table-top card game that parodies pop culture. It appeals to kids and adults alike, and even has a NSFW spin-off. The heavily internet-present meme community is probably causing 80% of the funding. Who knows how far it'll go...



Surpassed 100K backers and $4million dollars funding.

If they announce any significant stretch goals I could see this going well past $5million now to even $10million.



Wow! This is freaking amazing. 



Update: Project is now over $5 million

Interesting way to go about stretch goals, doing various "achievements" to unlock goals. From facebook likes to getting George RR Martin to tweet a specific message to posting pictures of Taco Cats,