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What is EvilFool?

EvilFool is an online card game based on Durak, the classic Russian card game whose name means fool. Everyone holds six cards. You attack with cards, and defend by beating each one with a higher card of the same suit or with a trump. Whoever is left holding cards at the end is the Fool.

Two to five players play with a 36-card deck, and up to eight with 52 cards.

Ways to play

  • Classic Fool and Vanilla Fool find you a table online. Classic Fool allows cheating and transfers (passing an attack on to the next player); Vanilla Fool allows neither.
  • Rooms: a private table for friends, joined with its code, or a public one anyone can join. You choose the deck, who may add cards, cheating, transfers and a coin buy-in.
  • Play with bots: a game on your own against computer players.
  • Study Guide: a short guided lesson that teaches you the game.
  • Friends: find people by their username, see when they're online, and join or watch their public games.

The evil part

With cheating on, you may play a card that doesn't match, or doesn't beat, and it looks like any other card. Any other player can check it: if it's illegal, it goes back to your hand, and checking a legal card costs nothing. If nobody checks it in time, it stands.

Spirits

You play as a spirit, a 3D character on your profile card and at the table. Everyone starts with Leshiy, and Kikimora, Koschei, Vodyanoy and more than twenty others are in the Shop. Coins are won and lost in games, and spirits cost coins or diamonds. Coins and diamonds are virtual and have no cash value.

Why we ask you to sign in

You need an account to play: it keeps your username and country, your spirits, coins and diamonds, your friends and your games. You can sign up with an email address and a password, or with Google.

Signing in with Google is optional. If you use it, we ask Google only for basic sign-in details: your email address and your basic profile.

From what Google sends back, we use your Google account ID, your email address, whether Google has confirmed that address, and your name.

  • If you create your account with Google, your Google email becomes your account email. Your Google name becomes your full name if it fits our name rules: letters (in any alphabet), spaces, hyphens and apostrophes, up to 60 characters. If it doesn't, or Google doesn't send one, the sign-up form asks you for your full name, and we don't keep Google's. You can change your full name in Settings.
  • If you link Google to an account you already have, we add your Google account ID to it.

Google may also include a link to your profile photo. We don't use or keep it. We never see your Google password. Apart from these basic details, we receive nothing from your Google account: not your contacts, files, calendar or anything else.

Your email address and your full name are never shown to other players. We don't sell or rent your data, and we don't share it with advertisers or data brokers.

Read the Privacy Policy for everything we collect and why, and the Terms of Service for the rules of playing here.

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