The most popular card game in Russia. Durak means fool. Players take turns acting as defender, while the rest act as attackers, with the object being to rid one's hand of cards. You play 0-4 hands, the PC plays the rest. In Tashkent they use dice which have two sets of pips on each face to play a dominoes-like game.
All touching faces have to have a match between both sets of pips.
Usually only 4 dice are dealt to each player. This game encourages three-dimensional spatial skills. Get out your hookah and sit down with this. This card game, AKA Ashush, is popular in the Middle East, especially in Arab countries. Basra was the home town of Ali Baba.