Playing Panjpar

Throughout The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir plays the card game Panjpar. Amir first plays the game with Hassan and later with Sohrab. My friend, Ashley, and I wanted to learn how to play Panjpar. To learn the rules, we turned to the Internet. We were not able to find the exact rules for playing Panjpar, but we learned that Panjpar is similar to a Russian game called Prostoy Durak. Naturally, we looked up how to play Prostoy Durak at http://www.pagat.com/beating/prostoy_durak.html. Since we did not have a 36 card French suited pack, we used a regular 52 card deck and took out all of the cards from 2 to 5. Ashley and I had lots of fun playing Prostoy Durak. We added it to the rotation of card games we play along with speed and war. I won 5 out of 9 games. Also, I taught my step-dad Travis how to play. I beat him 2 games out of 3. I decided I might teach my sister that way we can play the game during long road trips.