War Card Game

High. An ace beats a king, and 2 is the lowest card. Suits never matter: a 9 of hearts and a 9 of clubs tie and start a war. With the Jokers option on, two jokers rank above the aces and tie each other.

Three, then one card face up, and the higher face-up card takes all ten cards. Open Options and set War size to "1 down" for the shorter version, where each player stakes one card face down and one face up.

It is the chant children use to count out the war: one card face down for each of "I", "de" and "clare", and the fourth card face up on "war". It describes the three-down, one-up war this table plays by default.

You stake what you have, with your last card face up: one card left means that card plays face up, two means one down and one up, three means two down and one up. If the tying card was your last card, you lose the game at once.

By default the game ends after 100 battles and the player holding more cards wins, so a game takes a few minutes at Normal speed. Captured cards are reshuffled before they are reused, so a repeating loop cannot form. Choose "Play it out" to remove the cap: in 200 simulated games per war size the three-down version averaged about 310 battles and the one-down version about 440.

Not in Classic War. Every card is the top of your pile, so the result is decided by the shuffle, and the Computer skill control is switched off with the note "War is pure luck". Speed War adds one decision: on a tie, press Space before the computer does. Easy, Standard and Expert set how fast it reacts.

Our second mode. The cards flip on a beat, and when the face-up cards tie, the first player to press Space or tap the pile takes every card on the table instead of fighting a three-down war. A press with no tie burns one card. Presses are stamped on a shared clock and the earliest stamp wins, whoever hosts.

Casino War is a casino table game played against a dealer for money. This is the children's card game: two piles, higher card wins, no chips, no betting and no real money.

Two players is the standard game and the one this table plays: 26 cards each, flip together, higher card takes both, a tie starts a war. For three or four players the deck is dealt out evenly, everyone flips, the highest card takes all and everyone who tied for highest joins the war. This table seats two.

Yes, it is free. The game runs in your browser against a computer opponent with no download and no account. Your options and your record are saved in this browser.

The practice game against the computer on this page is complete today, in both Classic and Speed War. To play with friends, open a HopLobby lobby and send one link: our party games run in the browser too.

In Classic War the computer makes no decisions, so every level plays the same. In Speed War, Easy snaps a tie 0.6 to 0.9 seconds after the card lands and misses about one tie in five, Standard snaps in 0.33 to 0.48 seconds and misses about one in twelve, and Expert in 0.24 to 0.32 seconds and never snaps at nothing. No level sees your cards or the order of the piles.