Exploding Kittens announced their newest launch title Anarchy Pancakes. The gaming and entertainment company collaborated with Zygomatic Games to create simple, yet explosive gameplay within this new matching game.

The collaboration between the two companies resulted in a product that has elements from both Exploding Kittens and Spot It! Zygomatic Games, the publishers of Spot It!, approached Exploding Kittens Co-Founders Elan Lee and Matt Inman to reimagine both of their massively successful games. Both opted to have the game retain a cartoonish aesthetic unique to both of their brands, but optimized the rules of Anarchy Pancakes for a predominantly United States audience by adding a variety of cards.

“Anarchy Pancakes is pure, portable mayhem. It’s guaranteed to get players of all ages frantically shouting, stacking, and slapping cards on the table,” said Elan Lee, Co-Creator and CEO of Exploding Kittens. “Even though each round lasts just a few minutes, my family ends up playing for hours because you can just feel the win in the next round. It keeps all members of the family equally entertained.”

Anarchy Pancakes is a fast-paced matching game where players begin with seven pancake cards that have an assortment of devious toppings such as earthworms and flaming donuts. Players count to three, then quickly attempt to match their pancake toppings to other player’s cards from a “pancake stack” that sits in the center. The object of the game is to match all of the pancake cards in your hand before any of the other opponents do: the person to get rid of all of their pancake cards first wins and shouts “Anarchy Pancake.” The winner of the game collects a “slab ‘o butter” before carrying onto the next round. The player who wins Anarchy Pancakes is the first person to acquire two slabs ‘o butter and the game ends.

The game is aimed at children aged seven or higher and has a maximum group size of up to six players at a time. However, the game requires there to be at least two players to be fully functional. Anarchy Pancakes is compactly packaged to make it mobile, easily accessible, and simple to store away. Each round is estimated to last about five minutes each with tons of replayability. Anarchy Pancakes is priced at $13.99 on retail sites.

Exploding Kittens is a game and entertainment company most recognized for their number one product, Exploding Kittens. In fact, Exploding Kittens is the number one most-backed project in Kickstarter history with over twenty-five million copies of the game sold. The company was established in 2015 by former Xbox game designer Elan Lee and the Oatmeal’s founder Matthew Inman with their game launching that same year. The company immediately exploded in popularity due to Exploding Kittens and currently has about thirty different games available for purchase, an exclusive Exploding Kittens mobile game for Netflix subscribers, a free-to-play app, Kitty Letter, and an Exploding Kittens mobile app available iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. In addition, an animated series called “Exploding Kittens” is expected to launch on Netflix sometime later this year.

Zygomatic Games is the French board game publisher behind the launch of the famous matching game, Spot it! with many other notable titles under their name: Jungle Speed, Rory’s Story Cubes and The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow. They are a part of a larger company called Asmodee that specializes in creating and publishing board games.