War

Goal of the game

Win all the cards in the deck. The deck is split into two equal face-down piles: yours and your opponent’s.

How it works

• Each round, you both flip the top card of your pile.
• The higher card wins the trick: the ace is the highest, then the king, the queen, the jack, the 10 and so on down to the 2. Suits do not matter.
• The winner slides the cards won under their pile.
• War! If both cards have the same value, each player places one card face down, then one card face up: the higher of the two wins all the cards in play. Another tie extends the war (double war, triple war…).
• The player who has no cards left, or who cannot supply the two cards of a war, loses the game.

Controls

• Tap your pile, or anywhere on the table, to flip your card. On the keyboard: Space or Enter.
• The Auto button (A key) plays the rounds automatically; tap it again to take back control.
• "Speed" option: Fast speeds up all the animations. "Deck" option: the 32-card deck (7 to ace) gives shorter games with more wars.

About the AI

Your opponent makes no decisions: like you, they flip the top card of their pile and never know the order of their cards. Won cards are slid under the winner’s pile in a random order, which guarantees that the game always ends eventually.