Exploding Kittens

So Sound’s Toy and Game Designer Sam Roberts talks cats, coffee and coming up with ideas.

Elan Lee – CEO at Exploding Kittens – discusses the origins of the now iconic card game, sheds light on where the idea for the company’s latest game – Poetry for Neanderthals – came from, and his top tips for fuelling creativity.

“Poetry for Neanderthals was born when two friends introduced me to a word game they invented, where each player had to describe a life experience using only single syllable words,” said Elan Lee, co-creator of Exploding Kittens.

Currently sat at $6.6m at time of writing, Frosthaven is already the fourth most funded tabletop project in Kickstarter history.

Sales of Dobble – the UK’s best-selling game – grew 62%, while Bananagrams enjoyed a sales spike of 28%.

Tabletop projects made up the largest slice, contributing $687m.

The game sees players try to collect matching sets of cards faster than their opponents, while simultaneously throwing squishy burritos at each other.

In 2015, Elan Lee saw 219,382 backers pledge over $8m on Kickstarter to make his card game, Exploding Kittens, a reality.