Local Durak: Offline Card Game

The classic card game for friends in the same room, each on their own iPhone or iPad. Throw-in or transfer, teams or cheaters, ratings for all. No internet, no ads.

Durak with friends, no internet needed.

Local Durak turns the iPhones and iPads around you into a game of Durak, the card game half of Eastern Europe grew up with. One person hosts, friends tap Join, and the app deals. No deck to find, no arguing about whose turn it is, and nobody sees your cards. Play at home, at the cabin, on a train or in airplane mode on a flight.

NO INTERNET, NO ACCOUNTS • Phones connect directly to each other, like a LAN game. Keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on; you don't need a network or a router. • 2 to 6 players at a table, so two can play too. iPhones and iPads play together. • A friend who isn't with you? Send them an invite link: they join the same table over the internet. • No sign-up, no ads, no in-app purchases.

YOUR HOUSE RULES • Throw-in (podkidnoy) or transfer (perevodnoy) Durak. • 24, 36 or 52 cards. • Everyone throws in, or only your neighbors. • Every player for themselves, or teams of two or three. • Cheater games: throw in any card, beat with anything, and hope nobody calls you out. • A five-card first attack, a turn timer and a password for your table, if you like.

THE APP KEEPS THE TABLE HONEST • Deals, turns up the trump and keeps track of who attacks and who defends. • Tap a card to play it, or drag it where you want it. A move against the rules simply won't go. • Only the host's phone knows the deck. Everyone sees just their own hand. • The host can pause, and an unfinished game is saved so you can finish it another day.

SHORT A PLAYER? ADD A BOT Bots fill empty seats and play a sharp game right to the end. Each has its own character: they gloat, they sulk and they pelt the durak with emoji. You can even play alone.

SEE WHO WINS MOST • Everyone starts at 1,000. Getting out raises your rating, ending up the durak lowers it, more so against stronger players. • Your games, how often you were the fool and how often you got out first, and a rating for everyone you play with. • Tonight's standings at the table: who has been the fool least.

MORE FUN AT THE TABLE • The fool gets the DURAK badge, and epaulettes if they're finished off with sixes. • Throw emoji at anyone, especially the durak. • Nine card decks: the classic Russian Atlas deck, a 1911 Russian Style deck, folk decks painted like Gzhel, Khokhloma, Zhostovo and Malachite, and more. • Illustrated rules for anyone new to the game. • Optional nearby table alerts: get a notification when a friend you've played with opens a table nearby, even with no internet.

Everyone needs Local Durak installed before you go offline, because downloading needs internet.