Durak: play free online

You sit at a club table of leather armchairs with up to three rivals, each with their own style, and play with a 36-card deck from six to ace.

How to play Durak

Everyone gets six cards and the card under the deck sets the trump suit. The attacker lays a card on the next player, who must beat it with a higher card of the same suit or with any trump. The other players may throw in cards of ranks already on the table, up to six cards in a bout and never more than the defender holds. If every card is beaten, the cards leave play and the defender attacks next. A defender who cannot or will not beat takes the whole table and loses their attack. After each bout everyone draws back to six, the attacker first and the defender last. When the deck runs out, players without cards are out, and the one left holding cards is the fool.

Classic and passing Durak

The classic throw-in game is the default. In the passing game, a defender who has not beaten anything yet may lay a card of the same rank and pass the whole attack to the next player, which turns a weak hand into a dangerous one.

What a game looks like

A round takes five to ten minutes. Every move is one tap: tap a card and it attacks, beats the only card it can beat, or asks which pair you mean. Gentle, clever and master rivals remember which cards a player picked up, just like people at a real table. There is a learning mode with short tips, a daily deal that is the same for everyone, saved games, and online rooms where real players sit down and computer players fill the empty armchairs.