Exploding Kittens raised a whopping $8.7 million on Kickstarter

After 30 days of funding, Exploding Kittens, a simple card game that sought a mere $10,000 on Kickstarter, raised a flabbergasting total of $8,782,571

Created by comic artist Matthew Inman, as well as Elan Lee and Shane Small, the game likely owes a lot of its popularity to Inman's charisma, who also led a successful crowdfunding campaign to rebuild a Nikola Tesla museum in 2012

Still, its success is unprecedented. The game raised 87,825% more funds than it sought. With 219,382 backers, it is by far the most backed Kickstarter project ever. It is also the most funded (meaning it raised the most money) project from the Games category, and only two other projects raised more money on the platform: Pebble and Coolest Cooler. Read more...

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