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handyblog said
on 8/12/2009 sounds like a fun game
momose said
on 5/11/2009 Nice explanation of play of Oh Hell!
niellste said
on 8/20/2008 gonna go play right now!
malbuff said
on 6/14/2008 I forgot to note the concept of a negative score. If you miss your bid-- and under these rules, most players do-- you lose a minimum of 5 points plus a floating penalty number based on the number of cards dealt in the hand, according to a complicated algorithm the details of which I have long since forgotten.
malbuff said
on 6/14/2008 Continued... Their score immediately reverses to negative if positive, and doubles negative if already negative.
4. The 'perfect game'. This is where a player bids zero for the entire game and takes no hands. Incredibly difficult to accomplish, as veteran players will do anything, including sacrificing their own bids, to stop it.
5. Free-form dealing, in any order, with any number of random cuts or reshuffles. Often used to intimidate rookie players.
Company legend has it that certain performance reviews were based on one's deportment during this ritual game. Not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game and handled the good-natured abuse handed out by your co-workers.
malbuff said
on 6/14/2008 Continued... Their score immediately reverses to negative if positive, and doubles negative if already negative.
4. The 'perfect game'. This is where a player bids zero for the entire game and takes no hands. Incredibly difficult to accomplish, as veteran players will do anything, including sacrificing their own bids, to stop it.
5. Free-form dealing, in any order, with any number of random cuts or reshuffles. Often used to intimidate rookie players.
Company legend has it that certain performance reviews were based on one's deportment during this ritual game. Not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game and handled the good-natured abuse handed out by your co-workers.
malbuff said
on 6/14/2008 We used to play this game on our lunch break at work with the following variations:
1. Double deck. This allows cards to be canceled. If you play the ace of clubs, for example, another player can follow with the other ace of clubs, which cancels it. It also means that whichever card is turned over to set trump, that card is the 'super trump' since it is a guaranteed winner, the only card in play that cannot be canceled.
2. Four Jokers in the deck! They can be played as anything, except the super trump or 'supe'. Often used as the ace of trump, or 'bully', to win a hand by force. (Only the 'supe' can defeat the ace of trump.)Also often used to cancel the same.
3. The black hole! Assume a card is played, and then canceled by a joker. If a subsequent player in the same round must follow suit with the 'natural' card that was canceled, he or she goes into the black hole. Their score
jimdris said
on 1/18/2008 My whole family used to play this game when we were teenagers - we loved it!