Editing War (card game) (section)

== Variations ==
Being a widely known game, War has many variations. Recorded variants include:

;[[Casino War]]: A simple variation played for money in [[casino]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pagat.com/war/war.html |title=War - card game rules |publisher=Pagat.com |date=2021-06-17 |access-date=2021-11-26 |archive-date=2021-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006153744/https://www.pagat.com/war/war.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
;Three cards: Many play with three cards being played face-down during a war.<ref name="pagat"/>
;Prisoners of War: Usually played with more than 2 players. When a player wins a battle, they can choose to take one of the cards as "prisoner"; this must not be one of their own cards. If they do, they put the card face up in front of them, away from the discard pile and the deck. When another battle is started, a player may choose to not play a card from their deck, and instead of the "prisoner" card. (They cannot look at the card they would have drawn and then choose to play the prisoner.) If a player wins the battle, it works like a regular one. If they lose, however, they give the winner the card they played as well as the card they would have drawn if they chose not to play the "prisoner" card. If a war is initiated, it works the same way. If a player wins a war, they can also choose to "capture" one of the face-down cards.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pagat.com/invented/war_vars.html |title=''War Variations'' |access-date=2019-02-17 |archive-date=2019-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218081801/https://www.pagat.com/invented/war_vars.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
;[[Bettelmann]] ("Beggar Man") and [[Tod und Leben]] ("Life and Death"): German variants mentioned as early as 1833.<ref>Schenkel, C.F. (1833). ''Oekonomische Encyclopaedia order Allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirthschaft und der Kunstgeschichte'', Volume 158, Paul Eischen Buchhandlung, Berlin, p. 127</ref> Uses a 32-card [[Skat pack]] for 2 players with cards ranking in the natural order and suits being irrelevant, except that in Tod und Leben, one player plays with the red suits and the other with the black suits. Players get 16 cards each face down. They turn over their top cards at the same time and the higher card wins. If the cards are equal, players turn the next card and the winner takes all four cards. The player with the most cards at the end wins.<ref>[https://www.pagat.com/war/war.html#tod_und_leben ''Tod und Leben''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111055901/https://www.pagat.com/war/war.html#tod_und_leben |date=2019-01-11 }} at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 22 Apr 2019</ref>
;Automatic War: Laying down a two of any suit causes a War to be declared.<ref name="autogenerated18">"War" in {{cite book|date=2018|title=50 Card Games: 50 Popular Card Games for Hours of Fun|publisher=Igloo Books|page=18|isbn=9781784409852}}</ref>  
;Peace: The opposite of War, in that the lowest card always wins.<ref name="autogenerated18"/>
;Underdog: The losing player of a  War steals the victory if one of their three discard cards is a Jack.<ref name="autogenerated18"/>