Q&A for How to Play Oh Hell (Card Game)

Yes, if you can. If not, then you can sluff a card you know you can't win.

Yes, although we've played a single deck with up to nine players with good fun.

Just one deck (minus the Joker). You only deal an equal number of cards to each player. First deal and play with one card, then 2, then 3, etc., each time shuffling all the cards until you deal 8 to each player (52 cards divided by 6 players=8). The rules here say the first to 100 points wins, but I like to go back down from 8, then 7, etc. until we're at 1 card again. Doing so makes for a longer game.

Yes, but it's more fun with a bigger group.

No.

It doesn't matter how many people play. When you deal and there are extra cards left, you place them in the pile of cards that have already been set aside. What happens is that you can end up with a card as small as a 2 winning a trick as the size of the deck decreases.

I’ve played a version like that. We counted tricks as 11 points each. A zero bid was worth 10 points if made. Losing with a bid of 1 was -11 or losing with a bid of 2 was -22.

There are several tricks in the same round. Players alternate dealing rounds to the left starting with the player that cuts the highest card.

No. Also, you do not have to trump if you cannot follow suit.

Trump cannot be played until it has been broken. That means that somewhere in the game, someone led a suit that was not trump and someone else played a trump - trump is broken. Now that that has occurred, trump can be led and no, you do not have to play a higher card unless it is to your advantage to do so.

Not really, as you then have 2 cards of every number and suit. Best numbers are 5 and 6. Each number of players changes the game, especially with bidding.