Durak

Durak richiede un mazzo standard da 36 carte, rimuovendo tutte le carte sotto il 6 in ogni seme. Con più di cinque giocatori si può usare un mazzo da 52 carte.

Distribuisci 6 carte a ciascun giocatore. Gira la carta superiore del mazzo rimanente per determinare il seme di atout. Il mazzo rimane al centro coperto con la carta d'atout visibile sotto.

1. Determine the dealer. Players draw cards, and the player with the lowest card becomes the dealer.
2. The dealer shuffles the deck and offers it to the player on their right to cut.
3. The dealer deals six cards to each player, one at a time, starting from the player to their left. The remaining cards form the draw pile.
4. Determine the trump suit by turning the top card of the remaining stock face up and placing it under the stock pile. This card's suit is trump.

L'attaccante gioca una carta; il difensore deve batterla con una carta più alta dello stesso seme o qualsiasi carta di atout. Gli altri giocatori possono aggiungere carte che corrispondono ai valori già in gioco. Se il difensore non riesce a battere tutti gli attacchi, raccoglie tutte le carte. Dopo ogni round si ripesca fino a 6 carte.

1. The player with the lowest trump card becomes the first attacker, and the player to their left becomes the first defender.
2. Attacks are initiated by playing a card face up on the table and declaring its value. The defending player must then beat the card played.
3. To defend against an attack, the defending player must play a higher-ranking card of the same suit or any trump card if the attack card is a non-trump suited card.
4. If the defender successfully beats all attacks, they become the new attacker.
5. Attacks continue clockwise, with players having the option to attack or pass.
6. The maximum number of attacking cards in a single attack is six. If the defender begins with less than six cards, the maximum is equal to the number of cards the defender has at the start of the attack.
7. If a defender cannot or chooses not to defend an attack, they must pick up all the cards on the table and add them to their hand. They then lose their turn to attack.
8. Before the next attack begins, any player with fewer than six cards draws from the remaining deck to return their hand to six cards. Once the deck runs out, no card draw occurs after an attack.
9. If a defender chooses not to defend an attack, other players can add possible attacking cards before the defender takes the cards from the middle.
10. The game continues until one player sheds all their cards, at which point they are the winner, and the last player holding cards becomes the "durak" or loser.

Il gioco continua finché solo un giocatore ha carte rimanenti. Quel giocatore è il 'durak' e perde. Non c'è un vincitore: tutti evitano semplicemente di essere il durak.

Durak ha numerose varianti regionali, incluse regole per giochi a due o sei giocatori, nonché variazioni nella selezione dell'atout e nelle strategie di attacco e difesa.