Kenny Malone

We were choosing something that Walmart and Target think will appeal to the potential customer.

After all, they are the ones who will decide whether to order and carry the Planet Money game.

Yeah.

So remember, in our game, the players take turns entertaining deals from the other players.

That deal might include great cards or terrible cards or mediocre cards or all of those things.

But because you only have to show one of the cards, it turns the straightforward market into a chaos pit of distrust and betrayal and often shouting.

I feel like we've shouted at each other a bit.

A little.

Okay, cool.

But part of the exploding kittens process, Stephanie says, is then to ask, what is the less on-the-nose version, funnier, more whimsical?

Because that may help the game stand out on a big box shelf.

Stephanie pulls up a screen showing that the art department has invented and illustrated very silly mascots for all kinds of products.

Okay.

Stephanie pulls up an illustration of, oh my gosh, a very cute Bigfoot.

Ethically, we would ethically capture them.

I did feel magically transported to being a little kid who loves Sasquatch, I will admit.

They were adorable.

But okay.

Yeah.

Finally, option number three.