Free on iPhone and iPad
The classic card game for friends in the same room, each on their own iPhone or iPad. One phone hosts, everyone else taps Join. No Wi-Fi network and no deck of cards needed.
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How it works
Local Durak is a free app for playing Durak with 2 to 6 people in the same place. One iPhone or iPad hosts the table and the others connect to it directly, phone to phone, so you can play with no internet at all.
Tap Host a Table and pick the rules: throw-in or transfer, the deck, teams, and a password if you like.
Tables nearby show up under Join a Table. One tap and they're seated. No accounts, no sign-up.
The app shuffles, deals six cards each and turns up the trump. Your cards only ever show on your own screen.
Works in airplane mode. Keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched on and the phones talk to each other directly, with no router and no signal. Everyone installs the app before you go, because downloading it needs internet.
One phone hosts, friends tap Join. No accounts, no sign-up.
Open tables nearby show up on the Join screen by themselves, so nobody types an address or a code. Add a password if you want the table to yourselves. Your name and photo are remembered, so next time it's one tap. Someone late? They watch the game in progress and get dealt in next time.
Whoever is left holding cards is the fool. Everyone gets to let them know.
When the game ends, the durak gets the DURAK badge on their picture, and epaulettes if the last cards played on them were sixes. Everyone sees their place and their rating change, with a row of emoji aimed straight at the fool. Play Again deals the next game, and the first attack goes to the durak.
Throw-in or transfer, teams, 24, 36 or 52 cards.
The host picks the game before dealing: throw-in (podkidnoy) or transfer (perevodnoy) Durak, the deck, whether everyone throws in or only the defender's neighbors, a turn timer, and whether the first attack stops at five cards. Four players can play two against two, and six can play three against three or in three pairs.
In cheater games anything goes, until someone calls it out.
Switch on With cheaters and anyone can throw in a card of any rank, or beat a card with one that doesn't beat it. Spot it while it's still on the table and tap it to call it out. Caught, the card goes back, and so does everything played after it. Call out an honest card, though, and you're the one marked as a cheater.
The classic Atlas, a 1911 Russian Style deck and folk decks.
Play with the Atlas deck generations grew up with, the courts of the 1911 Russian Style deck, or folk decks painted like Gzhel porcelain, Khokhloma bowls, Zhostovo trays and Ural malachite. English, Classic and Midnight are there too. Everyone picks their own deck and table color, and it only changes on their own phone.
Bots fill empty seats, each with a character of its own.
Add bots to any table, or play against them on your own to learn the game. They play a sharp game right to the last card, and they have plenty to say about it in emoji: one laughs at everything, one stays cool as ice, one loses its temper. When only bots are left playing, fast-forward to see who ends up the durak.
Everything you'd argue about
No deck to shuffle, no counting who's left, no arguing about whose turn it is. The host's phone handles all of it.
Only the host's phone knows the deck. Each player sees just their own hand.
Turns up the trump and keeps track of who attacks, who defends and who can throw in.
Tap a card and it goes where it can, or drag it where you want. A move against the rules just won't go.
Any mix of friends and bots, on iPhones and iPads at the same table.
Everyone at the table, or only the players next to the defender.
Off, 20, 30 or 45 seconds, for the friend who takes forever.
Two against two, three against three, or three pairs. Partners never attack each other, and lose together.
In transfer games, pass the attack on by showing a trump of the same rank instead of playing it.
If a screen locks, that player reconnects. The host can pause, and the game is saved to finish another day.
Everyone starts at 1,000. Get out to climb, end up the durak to drop. Standings count tonight's fools.
Keep a table to yourselves when other people nearby have the app.
Get a heads-up when a friend you've played with opens a table nearby. Over Bluetooth, no internet.
New to Durak? Read how to play Durak, throw-in and transfer.
Anywhere you're together
Local Durak never needs the internet during a game, so it works wherever you are: in the kitchen, on an overnight train or 35,000 feet up.
Three ways to play Durak with friends.
| Feature | Local Durak | A deck of cards | Online Durak apps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works with no internet | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Nothing to carry | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Deals and keeps the rules for you | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Built for people in the same room | ✓ | ✓ | ✕Mostly strangers online |
| No account needed | ✓ | ✓ | ✕Usually a sign‑up |
| Nobody can peek at your cards | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Cost | Free | A deck costs money | Free with ads or purchases |
Yes. Local Durak lets 2 to 6 friends play Durak on their own iPhones or iPads with no internet at all. The phones connect to each other directly, so it works at home, on a plane, on a train or anywhere without signal.
You don't need a Wi-Fi network or a router. Just keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched on in Control Center, because that's how the phones find each other. You don't have to join a network or pair anything.
Yes. Turn on airplane mode, then switch Wi-Fi and Bluetooth back on in Control Center. One person hosts and the others join. Install the app before the flight, because downloading it needs internet.
2 to 6 players per table, each on their own iPhone or iPad. Bots can fill any empty seats. A 24-card deck is for up to four players; 36 and 52 cards seat six.
Throw-in (podkidnoy) or transfer (perevodnoy) Durak, the way most people play: six cards each, a trump turned up under the deck, at most five cards in the first attack, and everyone draws back up to six after each bout. The host picks the deck size, who can throw in, teams, a turn timer and whether cheating is allowed. Read the full rules of Durak.
Yes. Host a table, add bots and deal. It works offline too, so it's an easy way to learn the game.
Yes. Each player uses their own iPhone or iPad with Local Durak installed. The app is free.
Yes. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no accounts.
Not yet. Local Durak runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later, and iPhones and iPads can play at the same table.
They open the app again and reconnect, and until then the app plays their turns for them. The host's phone also saves the game after every move: next time the host taps Host a Table, the app offers to resume it.
No. There are no accounts, no tracking and no ads. Your name, photo and ratings stay on your device and are shared only with the players at your table. See the privacy policy.
Free on iPhone and iPad. Get everyone to install it before you lose signal.
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