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Choose Your Battles

By Julia Perry

Players: 2 Duration: 10 minutes Difficulty: Easy

About This Game

A 2 player game of luck with a little bit of strategy (okay, a lot).

Materials Needed

Cards: A 52-card standard deck.

  1. Shuffle the deck
  2. Deal the cards evenly, face down.
  3. Each player should have 26 cards.
  4. No one looks at the cards.

How to Play

  1. Both players turn over their top card.
  2. The player with the higher card wins
    * (A, K, Q, J, numbers going down to 2)
  3. The winner takes both cards and puts them at the bottom of their pile.
  4. The winner next round can look at their top two cards and play either one they choose.
  5. The not-chosen card goes to the bottom of their deck.

If they both play the same card, they go to WAR.

  1. They both put the cards in the middle.
  2. Each player puts 3 face down cards on top.
  3. Finally both flip one more face up card.
  4. The person with the higher face up card gets all 10 cards.

How to Win

The person to get all 52 cards is the winner!