Durak is a popular Russian card game, typically played with 3-6 people. The objective is to not be the final player with cards remaining. Although there are many variations, the rules presented below describe modified seige durak, which is my prefered durak flavor, and arguably the best way to play.
To begin, each player is dealt 6 cards. The top card from the deck is flipped and placed next to the deck. The suit of the flipped card denotes the Uber Suit. The player with the lowest card (2's are low) begins the first attack by playing a card on the table. Players attack to the left, and defend from the right.
To defend, a player must play a card which is in the same suit, and a higher value than the attack. Additionally, the defender can defend with an Uber Card irrespective of card value. If the Uber Suit is ♠, a 10 of ♥ may be defeated by a 2 of ♠. Uber Card attacks must be defended by an Uber Card of a higher value.
Any non-defending player can contribute to an attack by playing any card with the same value of cards played on the table. This is to say if a 2 and a 5 have been played, any non-defending player can play their 2's or 5's. Contributers cannot play more cards than the defending player has available in their hand. Any contributed attack must be defended.
If the defender is able to defend every card they are attacked with, the table is cleared and sent to a discard pile. If the defender is not able to defend the table, they must pick up the table, forfiting their next attack. Each player must have at least 6 cards at the end of an attack. The attacker picks up cards from the deck first, continuing counterclockwise until every player has enough cards.
Once all of the cards from the deck are gone, players continue battling untile a single player remains. The final player remaining after the last defence is the durak, or 'fool'. This is to say that every player wins excluding one luckly loser 😁
Don't be the 'fool'...
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