podkidnoy durak

[Erik McDonald]

There is a card game played in the US that is somewhat similar to 
"podkidnoi durak," though it isn't the same.  Its unliterary name - I know 
it as "Asshole" - and its social status as a drinking game rather than a 
children's game might make it unsuitable for the Grossman translation.  The 
rules can be found at http://www.pagat.com/climbing/asshole.html, which 
gives some less offensive names for it as well.  That site puts it in a 
different classification than Durak (the same site's Durak rules, as 
Anthony Qualin wrote, can be found at 
http://www.pagat.com/beating/durak.html), but at least it isn't a 
trick-taking game.  As in Durak, the last person with cards left loses and 
becomes the name of the game.

Erik McDonald

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