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Kittens in a Blender

A fast card game about saving your own kittens and feeding everyone else's to the blender.

You are twisted, and so is this card game: you save your own kittens from a kitchen full of dangerous appliances and cheerfully feed everyone else's to the blender. Each player holds a litter of kittens, and the box lid sits open on the table with an oversized Blender card inside. On your turn you play action cards that rescue your cats or shove the rival ones toward doom, and the hand game has a rock-paper-scissors flavor. A portion of proceeds goes to a no-kill cat shelter, which helps the conscience. It is silly, quick and mean in a cartoonish way, from 2011, for two to four players around age eight and up. Rated middling by fans, loved for the black humor.

Open box lid doubles as the blenderRock-paper-scissors style card clashesSave yours, doom theirs

Who it's for

You like a bit of black humor and light card combat with friends who will not take a blender prank personally.

Not for you if…

You dislike take-that games or the kitten-in-peril joke is not your thing. Expect little depth, and the mild cruelty is the whole point.

Vibe's take

Silly, snappy and cheerfully mean. Cards trade blows in a rock-paper-scissors rhythm, and the laughter mostly comes from the dark premise and the groans when your litter gets targeted.

#21,047 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2011 Β· 15 years ago

older than 75% of games

In 5,786 collections

collected more than 63% of games

2–4 players Β· ages 8+

Best with 4

20–40 min

shorter than 58% of games Β· typical 30–90 min

Complexity: light

Explained in 5 minutes Β· 1.1 out of 5 Β· lighter than 89%

Opinions: divided

Some love it, others really don’t

Language: little text

A few terms, easy to look up

Play style: competitive

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