Aces are high, 2's are low.

The tricks are played according to rank; suits are ignored.

Holding the stack of cards face down in one hand, you use the other hand to flip the card face up on the table in front of you.

Each player flips a card, so if you have two players you will have two cards facing up in front of you.

The highest card wins the trick and the trick winner takes the 2 cards and places them at the bottom of his or her stack of face down cards.

You continue to play like this until one of you has accumulated all the cards.

In the game of War, a war is a means to break a tie.

When two cards of the same rank are played, you break the tie by playing new cards in addition to those already on the table.

The player with the highest ranking new card wins the tie breaker and all the played cards.

If you both play a card of the same rank, let’s say you both play a Jack, you have to have a war.

You leave the Jacks face up on the table and put one card on top of your Jack, face down and then another card face up on top of the face down card.

So you’ll have the following configuration of cards in front of you: the tied Jack, a face down card, and a face up card.

The person with the highest face up card takes all the cards on the table and places them face down at the bottom of their stack.

If the top card is another tie, you place another face down card, then a face up card; you keep going until someone wins the war.

This is the best and fastest way to accumulate cards.

If one of you runs out of cards in the middle of a war, the other player wins.