Durak is a traditional Russian card game that is popular in many post-Soviet states. At the start, each player is dealt six cards, which are played in a series of bouts of attack and defence. When a player's hand is reduced to fewer than six cards it is replenished from the deck. After the deck is exhausted, the aim is to get rid of all the cards from your hand. The last player left holding cards is the loser and is called the durak ('fool' in Russian).