Battlecards

Features Battlecards

The objective of the game is to win all cards.The deck is shuffled and divided evenly among the players.
On each round both players reveal the top card of their deck, and the player with the higher card takes both of the cards played and moves them to the bottom of his stack.
Aces are high, and suits are ignored.If the two cards played are of equal value, then there is a "battle".
Both players place the next card of their pile to the table.
If topmost cards are still equal, battle continues with another set of cards.
Battle will continue as long as either player has higher topmost card than the other one (or player runs out of cards on his/her deck).
Winner gets all the cards that were on the table.
This game is known also as "War" and is probably one of the oldest known card games.
When I was a kid, I was playing a variation called "nälkä" (translated as word "hunger" in English).