At the end of 2014, Bring Back Reading Rainbow, a project with the aim of providing free access to a library of interactive books and video field trips for children, was the most-backed Kickstarter project, with 105,857 backers in total. In February 2015, the card game project, Exploding Kittens took first place with 219,382 backers and remained the most-backed project until January 2024.
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