![]() ![]() The players always play as individuals, not in partnerships, even when there are 4 or 6 players.Ī standard French-suited 36-card pack is used, the cards ranking from high to low A-K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-6 in each suit. Perevodnoy Durak can be played by 2 to 6 players. ![]() The name means something like 'transfer fool', and refers to the fact that a defender can transfer an attack to the next player by matching the rank of the attacking card(s). Perevodnoy Durak (Переводной Дурак) is a popular variant of the Russian game Podkidnoy Durak. Pass Card (Perevodnoy durak s proyezdnym).Does anyone know where the "cuzzer" might have come from? (Literally translating all or part of "prostoy durak" - "simple fool" - into Yiddish does not seem to produce anything resembling "cuzzer." There is a card game called Kaiser that is apparently popular in Ukrainian communities in Saskatchewan, but although it has a few similar elements to the game I was taught, most of the rules of Kaiser appear to be quite different from prostoy durak. (Probably because the game was very simple, as far as I know he only ever played it with us kids he typically played bridge or occasionally gin rummy with adults.) A quick check shows that the game he taught us was virtually identical to what is known in Russian as prostoy durak, an old version of the form of durak which is now extremely popular in the former Soviet Union: But my grandfather never used the word "durak" for this game the name of the game as he relayed it to us was "cuzzer" (sounds like the English "buzzer," with a slightly elongated initial vowel). ![]() My late grandfather (born in 1919 in Chicago to immigrants from Podolia gubernia and the Odesa area) taught us to play a card game that he likely learned when he was a boy. ![]()
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