
Samovar
The Durak card duel on a Khokhloma lacquer table. Attack, beat, throw in, or take the table, and whoever takes names the new trump as the brass samovar slides to it. Ten players, from the Hedgehog to Koschei, with a guided first hand.

The Durak card duel on a Khokhloma lacquer table. Attack, beat, throw in, or take the table, and whoever takes names the new trump as the brass samovar slides to it. Ten players, from the Hedgehog to Koschei, with a guided first hand.

Crazy Eights at the yacht club. Every card is a two-colour signal flag: follow the flying colour with its left half, then choose which of its colours flies next. Fly a colour your rival is out of and they draw. Twelve rival skippers, first to three rounds, stars.

Hearts on a rooftop at dusk, against three birds. Avoid the hearts and the queen of spades. The twist: a weathervane. The suit that won the last trick is trump for the next, so throwing off a card of the trump suit takes the trick. Twelve tables of three hands.