The crazy Exploding Kittens card game ended its Kickstarter campaign Feb. 19 with a massive 219,382 backers.

That's over double the previous record of 105,857 set by LeVar Burton's Reading-Rainbow project in 2014. Exploding Kittens raised $8,782,571 from fans eager to see this Russian Roulette-type game take-off. It raised $10,000 more than its initial goal.

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Exploding Kittens is the third most funded project in Kickstarter history. Ahead of it are the Pebble smartwatch and Coolest Cooler.

"We've never seen anything like you guys, and neither has the planet," said game creators Elan Lee, Shane Small, and Matthew Inman in a message to its supporters.

"You have proven beyond any doubt that you are unstoppable. There's nothing we can put in front of you that you can't do. There is nothing too great, nothing too hard, nothing too outrageous that you incredible group of incredible people can't accomplish as a community."

The card game is, as its name implies, for people "who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats".

Those who pledged $20 or more will soon get to take turns drawing cards until someone picks an exploding kitten. Once you do that, you lose the game. That's unless you have a critical defuse card that saves your life and the cat.

The game adds cards that allow players to "defuse" kittens (thus preventing them from losing), look at upcoming cards in the deck and skip turns. 

Players can alter the flow of gameplay with cards such as "laser pointers", "rubbing the belly of a pig-a-corn" and strapping on a "cheetah butt" to defuse kitten bombs, see cards in the deck and skip turns. 

The game for two to four players is recommended for ages seven and up.

It'll be delivered to backers this July.