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Exploding Kittens is a card game designed by Elan Lee, Shane Small, and Matthew Inman from the comics site The Oatmeal.

Originally proposed as a Kickstarter project seeking US$10,000 in crowdfunding, it exceeded the goal in eight minutes and on January 27, 2015, seven days after opening, it passed 106,000 backers setting the record for most backers in Kickstarter history.

At completion on February 19, 2015, it had $8,782,571 USD in pledges by 219,382 backers.

The campaign ended as the fourth most funded campaign on the crowdfunding site.

The first play test of Exploding Kittens was recorded on YouTube by Smosh Games, who had the first deck.

The backers started receiving delivery in late July 2015; all backers received the game by September 2015.

Russian roulette (Russkaya ruletka) is a lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against their head, and pulls the trigger.

"Russian" refers to the supposed country of origin, and roulette to the element of risk-taking and the spinning of the revolver's cylinder, which is reminiscent of a spinning roulette wheel.

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.

Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker).

A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules, but most are folk games whose rules vary by region, culture, and person.

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

The term "laser" originated as an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".

The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H.

Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow.

A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light coherently.

Spatial coherence allows a laser to be focused to a tight spot, enabling applications such as laser cutting and lithography.

Spatial coherence also allows a laser beam to stay narrow over great distances (collimation), enabling applications such as laser pointers.

Lasers can also have high temporal coherence, which allows them to emit light with a very narrow spectrum, i.e., they can emit a single color of light.

Temporal coherence can be used to produce pulses of light as short as a femtosecond.