The game begins with the first player looking at their hand and playing a card by placing it face up in the center of the table. Alternatively, choose with whatever criteria you decide to switch it up each round! For games with two players, place only 2 Defuse cards back in the deck. Remove any extra Exploding Kitten cards from play. For example, for a game with 5 players, there will be 4 Exploding Kitten cards within the deck. The amount of Exploding Kitten cards used is determined by counting the number of players and subtracting one.
Insert Exploding Kitten cards back into the deck.Everyone should have 5 cards in their hand. Shuffle the deck and deal 4 cards face down to each player.Begin by taking out all of the Exploding Kitten cards and Defuse cards from the deck.
