Exploding kittens - playing cards between attacks [duplicate]

Question

Related, but not a dupe: Exploding kittens. How many turns can an attack card "really" skip?

That questions discusses this scenario:

1. Player A plays Attack.
2. Player B takes a turn, draws an Attack and plays it.
3. Player C has to take three turns.

That is clear. But in this scenario:

1. Player A plays Attack.
2. Player B plays some other cards (Favour, See the Future or whatever).
3. Player B plays Attack (so does not draw a card).

Does Player C now have to take four turns or three? Or should Player B have played the Attack as his first card?

An argument for Player C taking four turns is that Player B could have done exactly the same thing whilst not being under the influence of Player A’s Attack and force Player C to take two turns, so they are just stacking those two into the two from the first Attack. However, I felt that by playing cards, Player B was essentially taking a turn which should be completed by drawing a card. He could then play the Attack as his second go and force Player C to take three turns.

Answer 1

A player is allowed to play any number of cards in any order from their hand during their turn before drawing (as long as those cards don't end their turn in a different way, such as a Skip), so Player B certainly can play other cards before an Attack card.

From the rules (page 1 under Taking Your Turn step 1):

After you follow the instructions on the card, you can play more cards. You can play as many cards as you’d like.

There are no rules anywhere that state an Attack card must be played first.

Player C would then have to take 4 turns.

Again from the rules (page 2 under Attack):

Immediately end your turn(s) without drawing and force the next player to take 2 turns in a row. The victim of this card takes a turn as normal (pass or play then draw). Then, when their first turn is over, it’s their turn again. (If the victim of an Attack Card plays an Attack Card, their turns are immediately over, and the next player must takeany remaining turns plus 2 more; e.g. 4 turns, then 6, and so on.)

Player B does not actually end their first turn, so Player C takes Player B's two remaining turns plus two more from the Attack.

Answer 2

The other cards do not end the turn so they have no effect on the number of turns played.

1. Player A has 1 turn to play.
2. Player A plays Attack.
   • This ends the turn of player A
   • And it forces player B to take 2 turns.
3. Player B has 2 turns to complete.
4. Player B plays some other cards (Favour, See the Future or whatever).
   • This has no effect on the turn because the turn only ends with a draw.
5. Player B has still 2 turns to complete.
6. Player B plays Attack
   • This ends the (first) turn of player B.
   • It forces player C to take 2 turns.
   • Because player B has one turn left, this turn moves to player C.
7. Player C has 2 + 1 = 3 turns to complete.

See also the rules.