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Most card games reward you for drawing cards. This one weaponises it. The deck hides a fixed number of exploding hazards, and ending your turn - the thing you are forced to do eventually - means flipping the top card and hoping it is not one of them. Draw a bomb with no Defuse in hand and you are eliminated on the spot; the last survivor wins.

That single inversion creates a strange, funny economy. Every card in your hand is a small delay of the inevitable, and the real currency of the game is information: how many bombs are left, how deep the deck is, and - if you were lucky enough to See the Future - exactly which card the next unlucky player will flip. Risk is literally computable: bombs in deck divided by cards in deck. The whole game is deciding when that fraction has grown too high to touch.

This page’s edition is an original adaptation of those mechanics: scaled decks, automatic defusing, a choice of where to reinsert a defused bomb, and up to four players including a computer that counts cards and gets nervous at the right moments.

Set the table above the board: versus computer (1–3 AI opponents, three personality levels) or pass-and-play with 2–4 humans sharing one device. You start with one Defuse and four random cards; the deck holds everything else plus one bomb per player minus one.

• Play any card in your hand by tapping it - there is no limit per turn, and cats are always playable.
• End your turn with the big Draw button. Whatever comes off the deck is yours.
• Draw a bomb and your Defuse fires automatically - then choose: put the bomb back on top (a gift for the next player) or at a random position.
• Use See the Future to peek at the top three cards in a private panel.
• Favor steals a random card from a random opponent; Attack forces the next player to take two turns; Skip simply passes without drawing.

The board always shows deck size, bombs remaining, defuses hiding in the deck, and every player’s hand size - the exact numbers you need to compute your risk before each draw.

Turn order is fixed and simple: on your turn you may play any number of cards, then you must draw to end the turn (or play an Attack or Skip to end it without drawing). Cards resolve immediately: See the Future reveals the top three cards to you alone; Shuffle randomises the deck; Favor makes a random opponent hand you a random card; the two cat breeds have no powers at all.

Drawing an Exploding card is the game’s axe. With a Defuse in hand it is spent automatically and you reinsert the bomb wherever you choose - top of the deck or a random slot. Without one you are eliminated, your cards go to the discard pile, and the survivors carry on. With one fewer bomb than players, the game can only end one way: one player left standing.

Two simplifications from the tabletop original are named honestly: Attack makes the next player take two turns (the common reading, without end-of-turn edge cases), and Favor picks the opponent and the card at random rather than letting you choose. Both keep online play brisk.

The math is simple enough to do in your head, and doing it is most of the skill. Risk per draw equals bombs in deck divided by deck size. Early on that might be one bomb in twenty cards - a 5% gamble. Near the end it can be 50% or worse. The board shows you both numbers at all times; the difference between winning and exploding is reacting to them.

• Hold your Defuse dearly, but remember it is not optional - drawing a bomb spends it automatically, so it only truly protects you once.
• Pair See the Future with Skip: if you know a bomb sits on top, a Skip hands the problem to the next player untouched.
• A defused bomb on top of the deck is an attack in disguise - the next player must draw it with zero warning.
• Attack when the deck is lean: two forced turns against a shrinking deck is often a death sentence.
• Favor late, when your hand is nearly empty - stealing a card when you hold plenty is just noise.

The endgame has a ruthless cadence: as the deck shrinks, every player tries to pass the parcel with Skips and Attacks until someone runs out of escapes. Keep at least one escape card until the very end, or be the player who forces everyone else to run out first.

New players treat Defuse as a card to protect forever and then discover it protects exactly one draw, automatically, whether they liked the timing or not. The real protection portfolio is Skips and Attacks - cards that let you avoid the deck entirely. A hand full of cats and no escapes is a hand on a timer.

The second error is ignoring the public numbers. With two bombs left in a nine-card deck, drawing is a coin flip with worse odds; players who fire a Skip at 20% risk “to save it” often never get a better moment to use it. And remember that a reshuffled deck changes nothing about the count - Shuffle is for chaos, not for safety.

Plainly: this is an original unofficial adaptation of a well-known card game’s mechanics, built from scratch and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to its publisher. Every card is drawn as original minimal SVG - a round cat with triangle ears, a loaf cat, a bomb with a spark - and there is no publisher artwork, card text or trade dress anywhere in it.

The implementation is complete for online play: decks scale to player count, defusing and bomb reinsertion are real mechanics, See the Future works privately, and the computer opponents range from careless to genuinely paranoid, counting the bomb density before every draw. Pass-and-play supports up to four humans on one device with hidden hands. Free, instant, and over in minutes - exactly the shape this game is supposed to be.