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War is a simple card game for two players, played with a standard deck split evenly between them face down, in which each player turns over their top card simultaneously and the higher card wins both, with a tie triggering a special war round of additional face-down and face-up cards to break it, continuing until one player holds every card. The game requires no decision-making by either player once dealt, since the outcome of every round is fixed by the cards drawn, and while its exact origin is not well documented, it has long been one of the most commonly taught first card games for young children because of its purely luck-based rules.

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Card Game 1
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Two-Player 1
Game Type
Catching-type card game 1
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Go Fish, Games

Go Fish and War are both counted among the simplest card games commonly taught to young children in English-speaking countries, requiring no strategic decision-making by either player, in contrast to skill-based card games.

Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
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1. War (card game) - Wikipedia
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    Type: Catching type
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    War is a simple card game for two players, played with a standard deck split evenly between them face down, in which each player turns over their top card simultaneously and the higher card wins both, with a tie triggering a special war round of additional face-down and face-up cards to break it, continuing until one player holds every card. The game requires no decision-making by either
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Wikidata: War
Wikidata Q640673, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
The Oxford Guide to Card Games
Oxford University Press, 1990Associated With: Go Fish

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