The objective is to play all your cards before your opponents in several rounds of attack and defense until there are no cards left in the deck. The last person with cards in their hand is the loser (the fool or “durak”). It is said that in this game there are no winners, only one loser. The loser is the last player who failed to get rid of all their cards.Durak is a Russian origin card game of attack and defense.

The last one who gets cards is the defender. The first attacker is the first to get cards.

After a finished round the players are given the lacking cards from the deck (up to 6 cards).

In order to defend, the defender can choose either a higher card (but of the same suit) or any trump, and a trump card can be beaten only by a higher rank trump.

An attacked player has three options: to defend, to take the card or to pass the move if not a single card has been beaten yet.The attacker cannot play more cards than the defender has in hand.It is allowed to play several cards of the same rank at a time and also to add cards of the same rank as those used in attack and defense during the round.The first move is made by the player who has the lowest trump and then the game goes clockwise.Its suit is considered trump throughout the whole game and beats any card of another suit. The system determines the trump card which is placed under the main deck on the panel.In the beginning of the game each player is given six cards.In this case the next defender has either to take or to beat all the passed cards, or to add one more card of the same rank and to pass the move to the next player. If a player doesn’t want to defend, they can pass the move to the next opponent by dropping a card of the same rank. What is the difference between Durak Transferable and Durak Classic? The aim of the game is to get rid of all of one’s cards before the other players. It requires a deck of 36 cards, the roles of which are involved into the game in order of precedency from the lowest to the highest in the following way: six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace.

Durak Transferable is a popular card game that combines the thrill, sporting interest and development of non-verbal memory.

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