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• Part 2 of 3: Playing War
• Part 3 of 3: War Variations

1 Find out the subject of the game. The goal of the game is to win all the cards in the end. War is usually played between two people, but up to four can play. The distribution of cards in order of importance in the War from highest to lowest is as follows: TKDB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Nothing beats an ace, and a deuce beats no one.

2 Shuffle the cards. This should be a standard 52-card deck. Try to shuffle them as best you can, especially if it's a freshly unpacked deck.

3 3. Deal the cards. Deal back and forth between yourself and your opponent until you each have the same number of cards. You should have 26 cards each. None of you should be looking at your cards.

• If you are a threesome player, follow the same method. Deal the same number of cards to everyone. If there are three of you, each player must receive 17 cards. For four players, the number of cards for each will be 13.

Part 2 of 3: Playing War

1. 1 Place the cards face down on the table. Players are not allowed to look at their cards.Also, your opponent should not see your cards. You can fan them out by placing them away from you.
2. 2 Count to three and reveal the card. Players must count and reveal one card at a time. You can only reveal the top card of your pile.
3. 3 Compare your cards to see which one is older. The player with the highest card wins the round and takes both cards, adding them to his deck.
4. 4 If the face up cards are equal, Fight. For example, each of you revealed the card, and it turned out to be 6. In this case, it's time to fight. To fight a war, each player must put three more cards face down on the table. Reveal the fourth card, as if revealing it outside the "War" state. Whoever has the fourth card higher takes all 10 cards of the round. If a player does not have enough cards to wage a war, the player must reveal his last card. This card will fight the war.
   • If two or more players have cards of equal rank, each player places a card face down. The next card is played face down, as in a round without war. The player with the highest card wins. If parity occurs again between two or more players, the War continues.
5. 5 Play until someone has won all the cards in the deck. This should take a while since War is a gamble, but when there is nothing to do, it will be a great help to pass the time.

Part 3 of 3: War Variations

1. 1 Add two Jokers to the deck. Use them as the highest cards in the deck. They beat any card and give the players who received them a good balance of power.
2. 2 Play Romanian. Robbery (Razboi) is the Romanian version of War. In Breakdown, the number of cards laid face down in a “war” is determined by the number of cards that started the “war”.
   • Example: If both players reveal 6, each player must face down five cards for the duration of the war and reveal a sixth. All face up cards have a value of ten, so each player must deal 9 cards during the war and reveal the tenth.
3. 3 Play half of the deck for an abbreviated War. Take two cards of each value (two aces, two kings, two threes, etc.) and place them separately from the other half of the deck. Shuffle and use only these 36 cards to play. This will make the game go much faster.
4. 4 Develop specific rules for the cards. For example, at the beginning of the game, choose an invincible card.
   • Example : Identify 2 hearts or 3 diamonds as invincible cards. Even an ace cannot resist an invincible card.
5. 5 Play 52 card war. Place all of your 36 cards face down in a row opposite your opponent's 36 cards. Show cards in turn at the same time as your opponent. Take the pairs of cards you won and keep going. Play until one player has won all cards.