How to play War

Learn the rules to the card game War quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.

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RULES:
The object of this 2 player game is to collect all the cards. Setup. Suffle a standard deck of playing cards, with jokers, and deal out all the cards. Each player picks up their deck and simultaneously flips the top card face up in front of themselves. Compare the two cards and the player with the highest ranking card collects both cards in a personal face up discard pile. Joker is the highest rank, followed by ace then king all the way down to 2. If you run out of cards in your deck, turn your collected cards face down, shuffle and continue playing.If you both flip over identical cards of the same rank, this is called a “war”. Each player lays 3 cards facedown, staggered on top of their faceup card, then each player flips 1 card face up. Compare the new face up cards played and the player with the higher rank wins all the cards in the war, including the face down ones. If, however, the cards tie again, then you have another “war”. Place down another 3 cards, and continue the process until there is a winner. If a player doesn’t have 3 cards to place down because they ran out of cards in their deck and discard, then they lose the war. The first player to collect all the cards in the deck, wins!

[deadxbyxdawn]

Before Covid, I was a professional body piercer and me and the desk girl would sit and play war for HOURS. Sometimes the days would get so slow in the winter we would play the whole day.

I cut up an ad card in my deck into two pieces and I gave her half and I kept the other. We eventually went our separate ways but still keep the puzzle cut cards in our wallets to remember all the good times we had just talkin and playing this.

[goatsmalotes]

Thank you! I hadn't played this game in years and totally forgot how, but now i can again ❤

[blakhorizon]

Teaching my 73 year old neighbor (I'm 32) how to play war, this was super helpful. Thank you! Evening well spent with friends

[jadadavis]

I love this guy! I have a teen program in which I show the teens how to play various games and his videos are always the best!!!

[eneidasanchez]

I FINALLY BOUGHT A DECK OF CARSS AGAIN 😭😭😭 With no tv or cable this was the game back when I was a kid. I’ve been missing it but needed a refresher on the rules. Thanks!!!

[JohnSmith-zwvp]

You'd expect a LOT better card game from its name, but it's basically the card game equivalent of Candy Land. In both cases the outcome of the game has already been determined after shuffle of the deck and there's no strategy of any sort. :(

[JR]

This game is completely based on luck. There is no decision making.

[himekoyouknow]

Thank you for this easy explanation and VISUALIZATION!!! IT WAS SUPER HELPFUL!!! 👏

[totalwomanja]

This is straight to the point. Thank you. Happy playing to me and my niece 🎉

[kikilee]

I love how you got straight to the point, thanks!

[LuxisAlukard]

Played this during the real war. Ah, childhood memories...

[adrieljosiasdaniels]

Great game again n the explanation was so clear n simple to understand 👍your doing a great job keep posting new games

[TheGoonSquadd]

THIS IS A HOW TO VIDEO. 1:30 long and straight to the point.

[oracleofcourage]

Cool version, when I used to play we didn't use joker and 2's were able to beat aces but still lost to every other card

[Worldchangerbygrace]

This is a better explanation than the other ones out there. Thanks.

[gandomlee]

I always new it as I, de, clare, war. So when you go to war you say out loud I 1st card, de 2ndcard clare, 3rd war which is the one facing up. I didnt know joker was the highest not sure why it is never played with it. And we made the 2 the second highest card next to the ace.

[davidpeterson]

Thanks a bunch! I was trying to remember how to play so I can play with my grandchildren. My brother couldn’t remember, a said look it up on YouTube.😂

[thecontinuum]

Great way to get the kids off the phone for a minute or as long as they want. The beauty in and of randomness 😊.

[Elytrii]

This was my favorite childhood card game

[lampslight]

I don’t remember Joker ever being the highest rank. It was always Ace for me. In fact, Queen actually beats Joker from the rules that I played.