War Card Game

Classic War Card Game with some options, capture all your opponents cards to win

Enjoy this classic war card game with some options to make the game quicker. Rules are simple, capture all your opponents cards to win or enter a war with them not having enough cards to win. Play against a friend or PC for hours of fun.

Lifelines, to add an element of strategy to the luck. You get 3 lifelines to use in a game:
- Switch: Switch your top and bottom card in your deck before you play
- Swap: Randomly swap a card with your opponent and play it on the next hand
- Shuffle: Shuffle your deck to shake things up
- You can use a combination of these before playing your card

Rules:
- Cards rank from 2 to Ace with Ace being the highest, suits don't matter
- Each player simultaneously draws and reveals the top card of their own stack. The two cards are compared:

- If the cards are different ranks, the player with the more highly-ranked card wins both cards and places them face-down at the bottom of their stack.
- If the cards are the same rank, there is a war!
- Play continues in this manner until one player has accumulated all the cards into their stack.

WAR:
- When a war occurs, each player deals three cards face down (you can do war with 3, 5, 10 and 25 cards in settings) and one card face up in front of themselves. The two face-up cards are compared and the winner receives the “spoils” (all six of the face-down cards, the two face-up cards, and the two original cards that started the war, for a total of 10 cards) and places them all face-down at the bottom of their stack.

- If the two face-up cards are tied again, players lay out yet another three face-down cards and one face-up card and compare the new face-up cards, with the winner taking all of the spoils.

- If another tie occurs, repeat this process until a winner is decided.

- If a player is unable to lay out a sufficient number of cards in a war, they immediately lose the game.

The game ends either:

when one player has accumulated all 52 cards into their stack (that player wins!)
or
when one player runs out of cards during a war (the other player wins!)