Durak
The best known card game in Russia. The name means "fool": the last player left holding cards is the fool. The rules take a minute to explain, but behind them there is calculation, and that is why some players win more often than others. Here is everything worth knowing.
Throw-in Durak rules
The deal, the trump, throwing in, "done" and "take". Plus the situations people argue about.
Passing Durak
How to pass the attack on, what the limits are and when it pays off.
Tactics: how to play stronger
Saving trumps, counting the discard pile, the last card of the deck and the endgame.
Beginner mistakes
Seven habits that most often cost a game, and what to do instead.
History of the game
Where Durak came from, why 36 cards and what we know about the name.
Glossary
Round, done, discard pile, passing, epaulettes. And which of them people often mix up.
Play right now
"Durak: The Journey" is classic throw-in Durak against fair bots, plus an adventure mode with artifacts. It opens in the browser, nothing to install.