🎯Oh Hell!
Bid your tricks exactly — no more, no less — as the hand size rises and falls.
- 3–6 players
- ~20 min
- medium
- Free
Dealing…
How to play Oh Hell!
Objective
Score the most points by bidding your trick count exactly, every round.
Setup
- Rounds start at one card each, increase to the maximum the deck allows, then decrease back to one.
- One card is turned up to set trump; the final round is often played without trump.
Rules
- Every player bids the exact number of tricks they will take.
- The dealer may not bid a number that makes the total bids equal the number of tricks — someone must be wrong.
- Follow suit if possible.
- An exact bid scores 10 plus the number of tricks; a missed bid scores nothing (or a penalty in strict scoring).
Strategy tips
- In one-card rounds, an Ace is a guaranteed trick and a 2 is a guaranteed miss.
- Bidding zero is powerful when you're void in trump.
- Watch the total bids — an under-bid round means extra tricks nobody wants.
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