“The Fool” is easy yet fun. You can have two, three, or four players. I will begin by explaining the rules for only two people.

First of all, you need to get rid of the twos, threes, fours, and fives. You will only need cards from six and up for this game, with aces being the highest. Thus, you will only be using 36 cards instead of 52. You deal, giving each player six cards. After that, you pull a random card out of the deck and place it on the table face up – this will be the trump suit. Then you place the rest of the deck next to it, face down. Cards of the trump suit beat any other card, with their own hierarchy within the trump suit still intact. That means that six of trump, the lowest one in the suit, can beat any card of any other suit, even kings and aces. The ace of trump is the highest card in the game, nothing beats that one.

For the first game, you will have to agree which player starts. After that, the person who had won the previous game goes first.

You attack your opponent with a card (cards) of low or medium value. It is best to get rid of them and keep higher ones for later, for your own defense or the final attack in the end. If you have a six, that’s a good starter. (Of course, I am not talking about the six of trump, you will want to hang on to your trump cards). Suppose you have given your opponent the six of diamonds. He or she now needs to beat your card by a higher one of the same suit. If they’ve got no diamonds, they can use a trump. If they have neither diamonds nor trumps, they must say “I accept,” take your card and add it to their own hand. In that case, they miss their turn, you draw another card from the top of the deck so that you have a hand of six cards again, and attack once more.

But suppose they do have a card to beat yours – say, they use the eight of diamonds. In that case, you look at your hand and check whether you have any eights yourself. If you do, you can throw them in as well, all together or one by one, and your opponent must now beat them, too. If they do, and you have no more corresponding cards, you say “Done” and move the used cards aside. You will not need them anymore, they are gone for this game. Your turn is now completed. Both you and your opponent draw more cards from the deck (you draw first; the person whose turn it was always draws first) so that you both have six cards again, and now it is their turn to attack.

If your opponent cannot beat any of your cards, they must accept them all. That is, if they have beaten the first six of diamonds, and then the eight of clubs, but cannot beat the eight of hearts, they must accept both eights and the six. Every time the person says “I accept” they lose their turn and are attacked again.