Dacha Durak

A summer evening in a dacha settlement: tea on the veranda, cards in the gazebo, the bathhouse bench, the station platform before the last train, the pond jetty, the apiary, the orchard and the chairman's porch. Every table keeps its own house rule and its own regulars, and whoever is left holding cards is the fool until the next deal.

Durak, the fool card game, podkidnoy and perevodnoy: two to six players, trump under the stock, teams of two, eight tables and a daily deal.

Each player gets six cards from a 36-card deck; the next card is turned face up under the stock and its suit is trump. The lowest trump attacks first and play runs clockwise. The attacker leads any card against the next player, who beats it with a higher card of the same suit or with any trump, or takes the cards on the table. Once every card is beaten, the other players may throw in cards of a rank already on the table, up to six cards in a bout and never more than the defender held; the defender beats those too or takes everything. In perevodnoy, before beating anything, the defender may add a card of the same rank and pass the whole attack to the next player. After a bout everyone draws back up to six, the attacker first and the defender last. When the stock is gone, a player without cards is out, and the last player holding cards is the fool. Tap a card to play it, or drag it onto the card it beats; when a card can beat more than one, tap it and then the card to cover. Take, Done and Show buttons sit beside your name. The road has eight tables, each adding a rule: throw-ins by everyone, transfers, neighbours only with a first bout of five, showing a trump to transfer, teams of two, a 52-card deck and a table of six. Keys: Tab and the arrow keys move between cards and buttons, Enter plays, T takes, P passes, S shows a trump. To play friends online, press Play with a friend, pick two to six players and the house rules, and send the link; bots fill the empty seats.