There’s no thinking, no strategy, and you can play the entire game in under a minute. It’s just about the easiest card game you can play. When all the cards have been played, the player with the most cards wins. The two players simultaneously draw the top card from their piles and lay them down, face up.
A standard 52-card deck is divided into two piles of 26 cards each. “War” is the first card game many children learn to play around the kitchen table.