This is a simple children's card game that teaches kids to recognize which of two cards is higher in rank. For many people, it's the first card game that they ever learned. A standard 52 card deck is dealt out evenly to the players into face down piles. Both players then turn their top card face up. The player with the higher value card takes both cards and puts them face down at the bottom of his or her pile. If the cards have equal value, there is a war. Both players place 1 card (2 or 3 in some versions) face down on the table and another card face up. This continues until one player's face up card is greater than the other's. The winner of the war takes all the cards on the table. The game continues until one player captures all the cards in the deck and wins. To add some skill, the game can be played with the cards held in the players hands and the players may choose which card(s) to play. - BoardGameGeek