The first play test of Exploding Kittens was recorded on YouTube by Smosh Games, who had the first deck. The campaign ended as the fourth most-funded campaign on the crowdfunding site. At completion on February 19, 2015, it had US$8,782,571 in pledges by 219,382 backers. On January 27, 2015, after seven days, it passed 103,000 backers setting the record for the most backers in Kickstarter history.
Beginning as a Kickstarter project seeking US$10,000 in crowdfunding, it exceeded its goal in eight minutes. Exploding Kittens is a casual dedicated deck card game designed by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal webcomic, Elan Lee and Shane Small, and first published by The Oatmeal in 2015.
