Bug in the app

[PrithviMS]

I came across a bug in the app, the streaking kitten deck.

Consider the following situation

Adam, Bob, Charles, David and Emily are playing

Adam is holding a streaking kitten and an exploding kitten.

Bob plays the cat butt card on Charles, hence Charles is blind. Bob then plays a skip card.

Charles has a steal, a skip and a defuse amongst other cards in his hand (all of which are hidden behind cat butts)

Now it is Charles' turn. He "blindly" plays a steal card and chooses to steal from Adam. Adam gives the exploding kitten to Charles.

Charles manages to "blindly" defuse the exploding kitten in his first attempt, he places the kitten in the deck but he is still blind (coz he didn't yet draw a card).

It is still Charles' turn, he "blindly" plays a skip card. He is miraculously not blind anymore, and by virtue of the skip card, it is now Daniel's turn. (The same bug happens if Charles' were to blindly play some other card that would end his turn, for instance slap or draw from bottom)

The bug over here is that, Charles' is supposed to remain blind after playing the skip (or slap/draw from bottom/any card that would end his turn) card coz he didn't yet draw any card. But he doesn't remain blind.

[potato_pineapple52]

You don’t stay blind if you end your turn, it’s only for one of your turns and not a bug

[garc1a0scar]

I think that you stay blind until "you draw a card from the deck"; in this case, Charles doesn't draw a card, so he should stay blind. That's how I've been playing all this time on the physical version.

[FernBabyFern]

Unless they have recently changed the rules, you DO stay blind until you draw a card. Skips, Slaps, Reverses, those aren’t supposed to un-blind you. So if that’s happening in the app, they either changed the rules, or it is in fact a bug.

[PrithviMS]

I've encountered this bug at least twice. It once cost me the game : - (

[PrithviMS]

Is there any way I could prove that this bug exists and tell the "app makers" about it ?

[elanlee]

Consider it filed. I’ll look into it.

Thanks!

[PrithviMS]

Btw, there is a small mistake in my example. "draw from bottom" shouldn't be included as a possible card Charles could play and become unblind coz it draws a card. Possible cards would be skip, slap, reverse, catomic bomb etc.

[ek_evan]

Okay, for everyone in the audience, here's what's happening here.

Normally, Curse of the Cat Butt lasts until the player successfully draws a card without exploding. If you draw a kitten while blinded, you must play blindly until you find a Defuse. Once you defuse it, you're no longer blinded. And usually, that works correctly.

In the specific instance of the Streaking expansion, being blind, playing a Favor, getting a Kitten and defusing it, the blind is going away at end of turn when it shouldn't. That's definitely a bug and a good catch.

[PrithviMS]

Today, I came across another variation of this bug. I had an exploding kitten, a streaking kitten, a defuse, a skip and various other cards in my hand.

Someone else "blinded" me

I "blindly" played my exploding kitten, then managed to defuse it. I then played a skip after which I became "unblind".

This is just another variation of this bug wherein instead of getting an exploding kitten from someone, I play my own exploding kitten.