Durak Card Game with AI, Stats & Achievements
Durak ("Fool") is the most popular card game in Russia and the former USSR — taught in childhood, played in cafés, kitchens and dachas, and a regular on Russian-speaking grandmothers' tables worldwide. Play it here in your browser: three difficulty levels (Training with hints for newcomers, Medium that plays a sensible strategic game, Hard that thinks several moves ahead), 2–4 players at the table, and both popular variants — classic Podkidnoy and the trickier Perevodnoy where the defender can flip the attack onto the next player. No sign-up, mobile-friendly tap controls, three deck designs.
Choose 1v1, 1v2, or 1v3 against AI opponents.
Training shows hints; Medium and Hard play to win.
Podkidnoy is standard; Perevodnoy adds the transfer move.
Click a card, then a slot or action. Or use keys 1–9 plus B/T/A/P.
When the deck and hands are empty, the player still holding cards is the fool.
A complete Durak game with smart AI, statistics, and achievements
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What is Durak?
A traditional Russian card game played with a 36-card deck. Players attack and defend; the last one holding cards loses.
How many players?
2 to 4: 1 vs 1, 1 vs 2 and 1 vs 3. There are no teams or partners - every player is on their own, and whoever is left holding cards is the fool.
What changes between Podkidnoy and Perevodnoy?
One rule, and it changes who is under pressure. In Podkidnoy the defender must beat everything thrown at them or pick it all up. In Perevodnoy the defender has an escape: playing a card of the same rank as the attack passes the whole attack to the next player, who now has to defend it — and can pass it on again if they hold another card of that rank. That turns a two-player exchange into something that can travel round the table, so a hand that would be hopeless in Podkidnoy is often survivable, and the player sitting after you becomes part of your calculation.
How smart is the Hard AI?
Hard plays at roughly the level of a strong adult casual player — it counts trumps, tracks which suits opponents have run out of, and looks several moves ahead before committing a trump. It is beatable, but you will need to play well; Medium is a more forgiving step up from Training.
Podkidnoy or Perevodnoy — which rules should I choose?
Podkidnoy is the version most people learned as children: whoever is attacked either beats every card or picks them all up, and the other players may throw in cards of the same ranks already on the table. Perevodnoy adds one move — if you hold a card of the same rank as the attacking one, you can pass the whole attack to the next player instead of defending. That single addition changes the game more than it sounds: a hand that would be hopeless in Podkidnoy can be shovelled sideways, so the defender stops being the only one under pressure. Both are switchable from the menu at any time.
Is online multiplayer available?
Yes. Pick Online in the menu, create a room and share the code or link — two to four people can play straight between browsers.
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