In response to link, I present my updated rules for the classic children's game War. Since I can name the game whatever I want, I chose Starr. 5 points to whoever posts a comment correctly guessing the reason for the name. I dunno if these rules will make the game faster or slower to play, but at least there's some mental exercise and decision making involved.

Objective
For one player to win all the cards.

Setup
The rules are for two people with a standard 52-card deck. Ranking of cards are A, K, Q, J, 10 through 2 (with suits ignored).

The deck is shuffled por the dealer and cut por the other player....

Introduction
Sheep's head is a popular 5-player card game which my friends and I played constantly in college. It originally came from 19th-century Bavaria as "Schafskopfen", and collectors can find versions of the original, specialized card deck available online. However, the modern version is played with 32 cards of a standard poker deck, each with a different point value and strength. The object of the game is to win the most points por winning hands, which have various point values and multipliers. Simply put, each hand is won por taking tricks of cards with high values.

Players
Sheep's head...

After play testing link Harold and I found it lacking, so we started playing with the rules and making a few modifications. What we ended up with is, I believe, a game based-on (and very similar to) War, but with a distinctive strategic component. The game also plays faster than War.

Objective
For one player to win all the cards.

Setup
The rules are for two people with a standard 52-card deck. Ranking of cards are A, K, Q, J, 10 through 2.

The deck is divided into two halves with all the red cards (hearts and diamonds) in one pile and the black (spades and clubs) in another. The individual players...

Many of you may remember the card game "War", which is generally very popular with kids. Recently I had a conversation about it with Michael, in which we agreed that it was pointless to play War as an adult, as there are no good end conditions and the game is completely determined por the initial shuffle...after that, it's just laying down cards.

How to play "War"
For those of you who may not have ever played "War", here's how it goes. It's a two-player game using a standard 52-card poker deck (with the jokers removed). The entire deck is shuffled and all the cards dealt out to the two players....

Internecine is a card game I created as a response to link. It's intended to be a much faster game with some tactical choices to make the game interesting, while representing something of the essential brutality of warfare. I liked Michael's format for link so much that I'm emulating it here in this response. Note: I use the masculine pronoun in this artigo to be grammatically correct, not to suggest that women would not ever play Internecine.

Objective
To survive longer than your opponent.

Set-up
Internecine is for 2 players using a standard 52-card poker deck, including jokers. The deck is divided...