Exploding Kittens details summer slate

Exploding Kittens has detailed its summer slate of five new games.

Exploding Kittens: The Board Game marks the company’s 10th anniversary with a new way to play the original game. Players race to the end of the track, using action cards to sabotage opponents or escape disaster. The board itself can be flipped from ‘calm mode’ to ‘chaos mode’, transforming every space on the board to set traps, sabotage the other players or form temporary alliances.

Exploding Kittens: The Board Game is available from June 21st in the US and June 27th in the UK.

Elsewhere, What Were You Thinking? is pitched as a ‘word-guessing game for terrible mind readers’. During the game, players take turns giving one or two-word clues to help their team guess a secret word – but the clue must start with a letter that can be found on the game’s Letter Grid.

What Were You Thinking? is available from July 21st in the UK and July 30thin the US at Walmark and Amazon.

Also available from July 21st in the UK and exclusively at Target in the US is Giants Moving Tiny Furniture. This game sees players act as giants working for rival moving companies tasked with moving miniature furniture using only their pinkies. Each round, a job card describes which miniature furniture must be moved, leading to a battle with other players to see who can complete the job the fastest.

Next is Exploding Pigeons, an adult version of the company’s Hurry Up Chicken Butt. During the game, players start the timer and shake the Pigeon to reveal a challenge to get their team to guess a secret word, It could be acting something out, saying a word or performing a stunt. The team must guess the word correctly before the player can pass along the pigeon. If a player is holding the pigeon when time runs out, the pigeon screams and the player loses the round.

Exploding Pigeons is available from July 21st in both the UK and US. In the US, it’s available exclusively at Target.

Finally, the company is bolstering its Kitten Games line with addition of Monster Match. Thissimple picture matching game sees players roll two dice – one with numbers, one with body parts – before racing to find the monster card on the table that matches the combo. It comes with two game modes, one for younger kids and one for older kids, and is available from July 21st in the UK and the US.

“Looking back at the last decade, it’s wild to see how we’ve grown from Kickstarter to a library of over 60 games,” said Elan Lee, Co-Creator and CEO of Exploding Kittens.

“This upcoming slate of games are some of my favourites yet, including our first-ever board game. It’s everything fans love about our original card game, but now the board itself physically transforms as you play. This is easily one of my favourite games we’ve ever made because it takes us back to where we started but with an entirely new way to play.”

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