How to Play War

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Windy St. George and this is how to play war. War is played with two players. One deck is divided between the two of them evenly. Face down. Then each player pulls up the first card on the draw pile and places it down, a seven and an eight. So whoever has the higher number wins the cards. And it goes into their point pile. Eight, seven. Eventually the same number will come up. When the same number comes up, then it's war. When it's war, both player says war, and then they put three cards down and then one card up. Three cards down and one card up. This here is the case of double war, which is again the same number has come up. So again you go and whoever has the higher number gets all the cards. Play continues until one player has no cards left. Although some people play where they agree that the first person to win five wars is the winner. Since playing until all the cards are gone can take a while. And that's how you play war."