The player can connect the cards where they fit to form an army of creatures in front of them.
The main strategy is to provoke the baby army before the player's opponents' creatures are strong enough to win.
The winner is determined by the player that has the highest point total of (b)eaten babies.
[1] Although it is the second game released by Lee and Inman, Bears vs Babies's earliest stages date back to 2012.
[2] Lee told VentureBeat in an October 2016 interview that they began working on the game together within two weeks of the initial shipments of Exploding Kittens.