At the start of each turn, the opposing player tells you which card to draw.

The new ruleset has players create a six-card grid in front of them, with all cards visible on camera. “Trying to guess where the is, if we reverse it and say that it’s the bad thing, you’re starting to look a lot like Exploding Kittens,” Lee said. He called it Quarantined Kittens and released it for free online. Lee said that both Battleship and three-card monte, a card game where people bet on being able to find one specific card among three facedown cards, led him to rewrite the rules of exploding kittens so that multiple people could play over video chat using their current deck of cards. “Those two boards aren’t connected to each other except via the human mechanism, the human is the data transfer mechanism between those two machines,” Lee said. There are no mechanics that require them to be in the same room. Battleship and Guess Who can be played over video chat with each player using their own copy of the game, similar to an air gapped computer. Air gapped computers are isolated from public networks, needing an intermediary to bring information between the two. Some of the best-selling board games on Amazon have been Battleship and Guess Who, two games that Lee calls “air gapped,” pulling from the technical term that describes a PC not connected to the internet. The talk focused on how Lee created a new type of “air gapped” card game that players can play, via video chat, with a deck of Exploding Kitten cards they already own.

Lee and Temple Gates Games founder (and board game enthusiast) Theresa Duringer discussed this during panel about games to play in quarantine at GamesBeat Summit 2020.

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