New Version Features Completely Redesigned Artwork and Packaging
Today, Exploding Kittens, the hit tabletop game creator, announced the relaunch of popular, fast-paced card game, Happy Salmon, recently acquired from North Star Games. Designed by Quentin Weir and game developer Ken Gruhl, who has since joined the Exploding Kittens team as a Senior Game Designer, the company has re-released Happy Salmon with an Exploding Kittens twist, featuring completely new artwork and an updated look.
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Exploding Kittens, the hit tabletop game creator, announced the relaunch of popular, fast-paced card game, Happy Salmon, recently acquired from North Star Games. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Happy Salmon is a perfect example of the types of games Exploding Kittens is looking to acquire,” said Elan Lee, Co-Creator and CEO of Exploding Kittens. “As a company that also started small, our goal is to continue working with other brilliant game designers so we can take their creations to the next level.”
Voted one of the best games of the year by The Toy Insider, Happy Salmon is a 90-second game that everyone will play for hours. In this loud, quick, and physical game, players are each given a deck of 12 cards. Once the game starts, players flip their decks over so that only one card is visible. All players shout and look for a partner calling for one of the matching actions - a fist bump, high five, switch it up, or the Happy Salmon (which is done by two players lightly slapping each others’ forearm at the same time). Players with a match perform that action together to discard that card, and the first player to get rid of all 12 cards, wins!
"Happy Salmon can truly be played in 90 seconds from opening the box to finishing a round,” said Gruhl. "But you’ll find one game is not enough. It’s addicting and you’ll be playing over and over again.”
Happy Salmon is now in select retailers nationwide and ExplodingKittens.com for $12.99. For more information on how to play, check out this video.
About Exploding Kittens
Exploding Kittens is a leading game and entertainment company with a mission to inspire people to connect, laugh, and play fun games in the physical world. After initially seeking to raise $10K through Kickstarter, the Exploding Kittens campaign raised $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, Exploding Kittens is the #1 most-backed project in Kickstarter history and has sold over 15 million games.
Started by former Xbox game designer Elan Lee and The Oatmeal’s founder Matthew Inman, Exploding Kittens and its family of games seek to reshape traditional game night into an entertaining person-to-person experience. Today, there are over 10 games available for purchase as well as an Exploding Kittens mobile app that is one of the top 30 premium games on both iOS, Android, and the Nintendo Switch console, as well as a free-to-play app, Kitty Letter.
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