Games
Durak
Durak with a deck of 36 cards, for two to four players: the attacker leads a card, the defender covers it with a higher card of the same suit or with a trump - or picks everything up - and the attackers throw in cards of the ranks on the table. The hands are filled from the deck after every bout, and whoever is left with cards at the end is the fool. Play the throw-in game or the passing game, where an attack can be handed on with a card of the same rank. The computer plays the other hands at five levels and sees only what a player sees; the strongest play the game out in their heads over many deals of the cards they have not seen. Or watch a demo game with open hands.
What happens
36 cards, six each; the bottom card of the deck shows the trump suit. The holder of the lowest trump leads first. The attacker lays a card; the defender, the next player to the left, covers it with a higher card of its suit or with any trump (a trump only with a higher trump). The attackers may throw in cards of ranks already on the table - six in all, and no more than the defender holds. A defender who cannot or will not cover picks up every card on the table. If everything is covered the cards are discarded and the defender leads next; if he picked up, the player after him leads. In the passing game a defender who has covered nothing may lay a card of the same rank instead, and the next player must defend against them all. After a bout the hands are filled to six from the deck. Players who run out of cards once the deck is gone are out; the last one holding cards is the fool.
Try this
Click a card of your hand to play it; to pick up or to stop throwing in, use the panel or Space. The right mouse button turns the view, the wheel zooms.
