GAME GUIDE
Durak
Attack, defend, and avoid being the last player left with cards.
01 · UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE
Essential rules
Objective
Get rid of all your cards; the last player with cards becomes the Durak.
Variant played: 36 cards · attack with support · no transfer
- Players
- 2 to 6
- Duration
- 10–30 min
- Deck
- 36 cards
Setup
- 2 to 6 players; 36-card deck, ranks 6 through Ace.
- Deal 6 cards each; turn the next card face up as trump under the stock.
- The player with the smallest trump starts the first attack.
Turn or round flow
- The attacker plays a card; the defender must beat it or choose to take it.
- Other attackers can add cards whose rank already appears on the table.
- The total number of attacks must not exceed 6 or the number of cards held by the defender at the start of the battle.
- If all cards are beaten, they are discarded and the defender becomes the next attacker.
- If the defender takes, the cards go into their hand and the next player becomes the attacker.
Detailed rules
Detailed rules
Variant played: 36 cards · attack with support · no transfer · Version 1.0.0
Objective
Get rid of all your cards; the last player with cards becomes the Durak.
Setup
- 2 to 6 players; 36-card deck, ranks 6 through Ace.
- Deal 6 cards each; turn the next card face up as trump under the stock.
- The player with the smallest trump starts the first attack.
Turn or round flow
- The attacker plays a card; the defender must beat it or choose to take it.
- Other attackers can add cards whose rank already appears on the table.
- The total number of attacks must not exceed 6 or the number of cards held by the defender at the start of the battle.
- If all cards are beaten, they are discarded and the defender becomes the next attacker.
- If the defender takes, the cards go into their hand and the next player becomes the attacker.
Legal actions and obligations
- A card beats a lower-ranking card of the same suit.
- A trump beats any non-trump card.
- A trump can only be beaten by a higher trump.
- A new attack must have a rank already present among the attack or defense cards.
- After the battle, players draw back up to 6, starting with the main attacker and ending with the defender.
Score
- No points for tricks; players are ranked by the order in which they go out.
- Series option: 1 win on first out and 1 loss in Durak, with no monetary stake.
End of game
- When the stock is empty, players no longer draw.
- Players with no cards leave the round after the fight is resolved.
- The last player still holding cards is Durak.
Locked special cases and variants
- If all players empty their hands at the same time and no one remains, the round is a draw.
- Perevodnoy Durak (transfer), jokers and the 52-card deck are disabled.
Artificial intelligence
The AI uses only its hand, public cards, the allowed history, and the legal actions sent by the server.
Easy
Chooses only among legal actions, with some randomness and no deep lookahead.
Normal
Uses a stable heuristic strategy, taking into account the score, the turn, and the visible cards.
Hard
Evaluates multiple action sequences, remembers public information, and limits tactical mistakes.
- Easy attacks low and defends with the lowest card that wins.
- Normal saves trumps, adds ranks the defender seems not to have, and takes the stock into account.
- Hard remembers all public cards and plans endgame play when the stock is empty.
02 · Cards to inspect
Cards to inspect
Look at the ranks and suits of these cards.
VIDEO ACTIONSView every type of move
Open the attack
1 / 8Preparing cards…
Read the steps in this demo
- Observe the starting layout.
- Play the 7♠ in attack.
- The defender must now cover this card.
Cards to inspect
01 · Situation
Observe the starting layout.
The main attacker leads with a card from their hand. Other attacks must then match a rank already visible on the table.
Teaching example · playable table cards