This is my family's go-to card game. Every time someone comes to visit, this game gets played. Every time someone new is added to the family, this game is taught. I'm very fond of it.
I didn´t know that, but my boardgame group has been hooked on Wizard for countless years. Just can´t quit it. So at least we seem to have a new variation for it now °_°
We've always played from 1 to 10. It makes the entire game more exciting and keeps all the players engaged from beginning to end. While starting at 10 and going to one makes the last few hands much less fun typically as some people are clearly knocked out.
Wonderful choice! "Oh Hell" (Oh Sh#t when we got older) was one of my favorite family card games growing up, and one of the first where us as young teens were allowed to play with a table full of adults. And swear. We would go 1-7, and then play 7-card special/fun hands of (if I can remember) »» No Trumps // Misère (take no tricks, and lose points for each trick you take) // Misère No Trumps // Bid Before Trumps Revealed // Bid Blind (choose # tricks before you look at your cards) // Pass 3 left (after you bid tricks) // Choose 2 at random from right (after) and then back down again to 1. So many fun memories! Thanks guys!
I've been playing Oh Hell (my grandfather refused to say "the H word" so he called it "Fingers" instead because we used fingers to bid 🤣) for over 20 years and I've never gotten tired of it. Such a fun game lol
Funny, how nostalgic. My grandfather wouldn't say the 'H' word either. So he always called it "That F**ing, Co*k Su*king, Fa**ot as*ed, Je*ish, Da*o, Wh*p, Sp*c game" Or something like that (Granpa did have a few anger issues and drank a lot, so we never could be quite sure of what said after abt 10AM)😊🙄✌️🤡 {He DID use his fingers during the game. But usually only one on each hand. 🤣🤡
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It's great. We call it Plump here in Sweden. Plump referring to the theoretical lump of ink you put on top of any failed guess to mark what a loser they were :p
Oh yeah this is a great game. Used to play this as a kid with family gatherings. It is a lot of fun. I love this new segment of the channel! Definitely introducing this to my kids.
We play this game in family (5 people) and we play starting at one card up to 7 then down to one and it’s great! lots of room for trash talk and trying to get in people’s head.
The part where the cards dealt go from 10 down to 1 and back up to 10 is how my family played Switch (nothing to do with Nintendo, more of an ancestor of Uno) on holiday for yeeears. Can confirm it makes a three act structure out of playing the same game for 19 rounds.
This is pretty close to how we played it (I believe we went from 1 up to 10 and then back down), but the scoring is radically different. In our games, if you made your bid, you would score your bid squared. This incentivized bidding high. But, if you miss your bid, you lose points equal to how much you missed by *cubed*. So if I bid 4 and won 1, I'd lose 27 points. Same if I bid 1 and won 4.
We play this game to... we go from 1 to 13, and we have teams of two. That makes the tricks a little more exciting. But, there isn't the rule about needing to have one more than others bet on.
@@FernandoCanoG hi! So, I'll try. We start by dealing the first hand at 1 card, then 2, ... To thirteen. Dealer rotates. Left of dealer bids tricks, all the way around, and you sit across from your teammate (like euchre). Once all four player have bid, play begins with whoever bid the highest. You have to follow suit, but if you are out of a suit, you may Trump with the Trump suit. (One card is flipped up for Trump). At the end of the hand, you compare total count bid to tricks taken (bid 3, took 4). Each bid trick is worth 3 pts, unbid tricks are worth 1 each. If you don't take at least the number of tricks, you get -3 for each trick you bid (if you bid 3, took 2, you would receive -9 points). Once you get to 13 cards, you have to cut the deck to see what Trump is before you deal. After you have at least 8 cards dealt out, you can throw in (and call for re-deal) if you have no Trump or aces. After you do your hand of 13, you do another hand of 13, then 12, then 11, etc. For the first and last hand (of one) all rules are the same, but if you bid a trick and get it, or if you get set, instead of +3 or -3, you get +13 or -13. Allows both a quick (but not insurmountable) start, and potential for comeback at the end. If you have any questions let me know!
@@FernandoCanoG yes! We only play with 4 players. I can imagine 6 players with either three teams of two or two teams of 3. Of course you could only play up to 8 cards in that situation. I think it would be fun but slightly less strategic.
In my family we score it a bit differently, for each trick a player wins, they get 10 points, for each trick a player loses, they lose 5 points, & if a player bids 0 tricks & gets 0 tricks, they get 5 points. other than that (and the fact that we start at 7 instead of 10), it’s exactly how we play it at home. You make enemies very easily.
My family and I actually play it under another name: "trump." It's a great introduction to lots of card game concepts like tricks, following suit, and trump.
Seth Cunningham we used to play “trump” as kids too, this was in 90’s in India. Similar to Oh Hell (trick taking) except you go from 1-card to 13 cards each (once) and add up. One Scoring rule that makes Trump more interesting than Oh-hell is if you dont make the tricks you bet (even if you’re one short), you lose 10 points per trick (so if you bet 5 and made 4, you’re score is -50) conversely if you make all tricks you get 10 points per trick +1 for extra tricks (if you bet 5 and made 7, score is 52)
When I was a kid, this was THE game that the whole family would play till late at night on holidays. We had a super weird German name for it, and no one knew where the game originated from. Over the years, I kept on teaching it to friends; none of them had heard of it before. I liked it so much that I even developed a mobile app for it. And only after I had released the app on Google Play, I found out that the game is called Oh Hell, and 'my' game, which I named 'Trick Call', is just a variant of it. ^^
Easily my favourite card game. Played a variant of this where the highest trick caller decides the trick suit for that round, but think I will have to try this version
A variation of “Oh Hell!” that I really enjoy is to only deal out a single card for the hand in each round, then two cards, three, four, five, six, and so on up to some limit (say ten cards). Hitting your bid exactly with ten cards is quite hard, though much easier with just a few cards. And then in each round, with the growing number of cards in the hand, it gets successfully harder and harder. A mess of fun. If you hit, you get ten points plus your bid added to your score. If you miss, then you get your bid subtracted from your score. That’s the way I’ve learned to play it and may be an obscure variation.
Another minor point is that it’s better for the dealer to place the deck and revealed trump card in front of them and not in the middle. Players should play into the middle of the table, stacking the cards and making it easier for the winner to grab the stack when they win the trick. Just a procedural issue. When I play I also have a marker object or chip to indicate the dealer position, which rotates.
I've been waiting for this game to appear on this series. I love this game and it was my personal gateway into the hobby - we call it Nomination Whist where I'm from, just to add to the already long list of names... But it's absolutely fantastic, and it's great to see it getting some "formal" recognition in the hobby. Thanks again for starting this series - it's been superb so far! Edit: We always stop Nomination Whist when you get to the single-card round but because variants have been mentioned, we also play a variant that I think my buddy's Grandad created called Pentiguess (I think). The rules are exactly the same as the game explained in the video (stopping at the single-card round), but every single round you pass one card around the table after nominating the number of tricks you'll win. In earlier rounds you can screw other players over by giving them a high trump after they nominate zero, for example, but in later rounds it creates complete chaos that's often pretty hilarious - worth a shot if you've already played and enjoyed this game!
In Norway we play a variant of this called melding (bidding), but it has a few different rules. It is usually played with 5-7 people, as if you're fewer than that there are plenty of better games to play. I don't particularly like this game, but my family plays it a lot when we are more than 5 people. * You start by dealing 1 card, up to the maximum of possible cards depending on how many people play (5 people would be 10 cards), then back down to 1. * There is no trump * You bid using the hand method shown at the end of the video * If you bid 0 and get 0 tricks you get 5 points * If you bid more than 0 and get exactly your bid you get 10 points + your bid amount. * If you get anything other than your bid you get 0 points. * Since the people who get the first and last round have an advantage we draw cards to see who starts dealing. This creates a situation where people try to avoid getting tricks on good cards because they are trying to play safe. If you can't get out of a suit you often end up with too many tricks. It is a deceptively complicated game since the amount of cards not in play and the amount of trick vary. I have no idea how it would play with trump and I bet there is no way I'll be able to convince my family who has been playing this for half a century to try doing something different.
"I play this game but with different rules and I don't like it very much" is the board game version of "I made this recipe but substituted tinned meat for the steak and oregano for the salt and it was disgusting."
@@tallkyle831 Well, I didn't invent this game, like I said my family has been playing it for over 50 years. Playing card games is not like cooking, it requires other people to participate and I'm a single person participating in a group activity that has agreed upon rules which have been the same for longer than I've been alive. I haven't changed anything at all, I just shared the version we play here. I don't like the game as much as other games, but I like card games a lot more than sitting alone not participating in the activity the rest of my family is engaged with. If it was just up to me we would be playing a different game or the Oh Hell version of it, but it is not just up to me. I'll float the idea the next time we play, but these versions of it isn't fundamentally different and still feature the same thing I don't like about the game, which is how it changes so much depending on how many tricks are used and how you have imperfect information due to much of the deck not being dealt. To use your cooking analogy: You can spice up a steak however you want, but and the end of the day, its still a stake. A stake can only be as good as a stake can be without fundamentally altering the dish. It's the same way with this card game, I like stake, I just prefer pizza.
I've always enjoyed Hearts. You need exactly 4 people, and it usually takes 5 or 6 tricks before people start to get it, but then they start playing for blood and it descends into an incredible multilayered bluffing game.
In Hungary we call this game Rikiki, I have no idea why :D Also played in a lot of different ways. My favourite version (the way I was taught as a kid) is we start with 1 card (on your forehead as you mentioned), and go up to 17 (with 3 players, 13 with 4 players). That means, in the last turn only 1 card left (or 0 with 4 players), so you can actually to keep track of the cards still in play. But then we stop, do not go back to 1. So we start with a pretty luck based game, but in the end it gets viciously tactic and skillful :) Also about scoring: winning hand scores 10 + 2 times the tricks taken, while losing hand scores -2 times the difference between what you promised you'll take and the actual tricks you took. (Negative scores can happen in the beginning because of this.) Ah and one more thing, instead of flipping a card to determine the trump, we randomly decide the first trump, and then starting from that we loop the trumps through the game: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, sans - meaning "without trump", so 1 in every 5 games there isn't any trump actually. It also spices things up a bit.
Alguien que hable español que me confirme si este juego es el que se conoce como "La Podrida" aqui en Argentina y Uruguay ,y si es asi hay algun tutorial donde se expliquen las reglas en español? lo jugaba antes pero me olvidé y me encantaba.....gracias!
Bueno, un año después llego a ver este video, y encuentro a alguien diciendo lo que yo buscaba. Sí, es "La Podrida". Yo armé un reglamento en español en Facebook hace como una década, buscando encontrar jugadores pero...no tuve mucha suerte. Igual, lo jugué por tanto tiempo, que si hay algo que no recuerdes, preguntame. Como dicen en el video, en todos lados se juega distinto.
Our scoring is way harsher actually. When you miss your bid (called number of tricks), you LOSE points equal to 10+your bid instead of just gaining fewer points. Really puts the focus on accurately predicting how make tricks you'll take, and adapting when things go horribly wrong.
We’ve played and enjoyed this game for years. The variant we play has a great mid game twist. We start the game with 1 card and increase each round up to 6. In the middle of the game are two hands each of 7 cards - the first is Misère where you must lose each trick and score -2 for each trick you take. The second 7 card hand is called Nomination where you declare how many tricks you will win and THEN. reveal the trump card. You score the usual way for each trick you take. Regular play then continues, decreasing back to 1 card.
We call it Riki-tiki or Rikiki. We play a different version. You start with one card each 1st is a blind game and from second round you raise the number of cards till there is no left and then you go down with cards every round till one card.
We also guess the number of tricks by having our hands together in the middle of the table and we show the number after knocking on the table 3 times so no one have time to speculate by knowing what the other is guessing
My friends and I go away camping each July and take a myriad of small box/card games to play over the course of the weekend. Last year we pretty much exclusively played Oh Hell. It really is that addictive!
As long as we're doing game recommendations in the comments: Kemps is a great card game that's closer to a social deduction/pure bluffing game more than anything else. Seems like it'd be right up your alley!
In Denmark this is called "Tips" or "Agurk" (cucumber) and you make hidden bets with whatever small object you have nearby, preferably matches. Plus if you bet wrong you get minus 10 points plus the amount you bet wrong. Been playing this game all my life. Super simple and elegant game with a lot of comeback potential. Its good clean fun !
Ohh this is by far my favorite cardgame. But we dont use a trumpsuit. We call it "plump" in swedish, basically meaning dot. And never knew that was what Trick in trick-taking meant always thought it meant trick as in tricking someone.
you shoud look in to Ninety-Nine it is a bit the same but you say howe many tricks you wil exactly get by puting down 3 cards at the begining of the game blind. and you wil scor points at the end depending on howe many people made it. it is a great 3 player trick taking game
We’ve played this game extremely often as we grew up (still do, especially my parents). Great to see it shown here! With all the versions being posted, here is ours: Play - Start at one card, go up to max, then start at max and go back down to one. - No trumps. - Hidden bids, everyone reveals simultaneously. It might fit, it may be completely off. Scoring - If you made your exact bid, you get 5 points +1 for each trick. - If you did not make your exact bid, you lose cumulative points for each trick you are removed from your bid (1 over/under =-1, 2 over/under =-3, 3 over/under = -6, and so on). Great series, keep up the good work!
This is fantastic because I have been playing euchre for years and years (another trick taking game) and this is a nice new game that my friends should be able to pick up fast! Great choice
Contract Whist has always been my favourite card game, been playing it for years with family and then played it in Sixth Form free periods. Now play it with my Uni friends too, great video as always!
For me this game is best payed at 4. There is lot of interesting variant rules of this game on BoardGameArena website ; I personally like this funnier, easier, faster, riskier and more hazardous variant : - going to 1 to 10 for short game, then going back down to 1, devil's bridge, for long game (decide this before starting). This order is easier for beginners. - Scoring : +1 by trick won + 10 if bet is accurate (like presented in this video) - Scoring "Nothing is Everything" : If you bet 0 and win, you also get a bonus point equals to the numbers of card you had in the round (ie 10+5 if you had 5 card in this round), exactly like you would have win a maximum bet. - everybody announce bet in the same time, revealing it with fingers in a rock-paper-scissor way. Close fist means 0. Using both hands if there is more than 5 card in the round. - highest bidder choose the Trump suit (in case of egality, the first to play in order chose) => this variant make betting 0 more rewarding, but also more risky and random since betting 0 means you will not chose the Trump. It encourage people to do more extreme bets (0 or quite big, to get to choose the Trump), so it's more fun and tense. Another variant very similar to the one purposed is to play until you can distribute all the cards evenly, ie from 1 to 17 if you play at 3, 13 if you are 4, 11 if you are 5 and combine 2 decks to play at 6+. (So card-counting skills will enter in the game). Combine well with the"Nothing is Everything" scoring too.
We always called this game Bid in my family, and everyone was required to thump their fist on the table three times before we all showed our bids simultaneously. It was a favorite for many gatherings. One year we played it while counting down to New Year’s and it was very thematic. :D
We play starting at 7 cards down to 2, the 2 to 7. So you play 2 trick hands back to back. But in the entire game you are not allowed to bid 0 in back to back rounds. This little rule adds more than you think! :)
Can confirm that this rule is invaluable and stops some cheesy play when people work out that 0 is a fairly easy number to hit, especially as the hands get smaller!
My family plays this game with a few strange but fun caveats: 1. We play it with a deck of Rook cards instead (more than one if it’s a family gathering or something). Low numbers are low, lol. A rook is the highest card possible, and its suit is whatever the trump suit is. 2. You’re allowed to cheat in the way advised against in this video! If you’re caught, however (later they see you play a card of the suit you cheated in before), then you lose ten points and can’t gain any points from that hand. (Also, if say someone cheated but you’re wrong, you lose 10 points and can’t get any in that hand). 3. If you take more tricks than your bid, you lose 10 points. 4. You can have a negative score.
The way I have learnt to play it has no trump suit, you show on your fingers how many tricks you are going to take, like you did at the end. Lastly the tricks bid around the table can not be equal to the tricks that round. If it is, then the person to the right of the dealer must change its bid to be higher or lower than the bids that round. What makes this cool is that the more cards that are not dealt, means you could win tricks with quite low cards.
i remember playing this once at a friends house before we lost contact. i couldn't remember what it was called. when he said the name (whist) i thought he said it was called "'k wist 't" which is dutch for "i knew it" which considering the gameplay makes perfect sense as a name, but because i misheard it, it took me ages to find this game again. thank god i did. we played the game from 1-10-1 and did the devil's bridge thing only with ,the first and last trick when we had 1 card left.
Basically a SPADE, with a decreasement of cards and I suppose you will chose the trump suit.. SPADE, HEARTS, MANNI, EUCHRE(HARD) are the best trick-taking games.
This game is a lot of fun. My family play this when I go back to visit. Even my grandma played up until she was 90. It is a lot of laughs... there are always surprises and people mildly screwing each other over. We usually just play down to 1. Also we predetermine all of the Trump... and who deals each round. For example with 4 people playing we would play 13 rounds .... 13H, 12S, 11D, 10C, 9(No trump), 8H, 7S, 6D, 5C, 4(NT), 3H, 2C, 1D. Each round a new person deals... so on the last round (with 1 card) the same person isn't stuck as the dealer each game. Like they said... there are a ton of variants. I play a lot of board games but honestly some of the most fun I have ever had was playing this with my family.
We play a variant of this in Indonesia! We call it "Truf," which just means "Trump." The rules differences: - 4 players only, 13 tricks every round (you deal all 52 cards) - You each bid using one (or more, this is a special rule) of your cards in your hand, which is revealed together with everyone else's bids - The trump is the suit of the highest bid - Play starts with the highest bidder - Can't lead with the trump if it hasn't been broken (like in Hearts) - Scoring ... maybe later - Play until one player reaches an agreed-upon point threshold Used to play this all night long! Sooo good.
My wife and i and 2 best friends have been playing this game (we call Mongrel) now for our 11th year in a row (2010-2020) as an annual championship. We all have known the game though for over 30 years and discovered our joint love of the game 13 years ago. We include a single joker as the highest of trumps then ace down or highest card in a suit wins, when it is the face up trump card. We play 1-13 cards and then back down again with the loser of the previous game as the dealer as well as the scorer (suffer). We score exact call (must not be an even tally) plus 10 points and 0 if you fail your call, this promotes screwage when you know you can't win and do your best to mess with the other players (we love screwage). We try to play every 2-3 weeks or so and get in 5 games each time (6.5 hours). Scoring is 1st 5,2nd 2,3rd 1 and last 0 points for each game and at the end of the year we tally up and have our annual winner. There is nothing like this game for sheer drama and tension when you bid, play your cards well and just when you think you have won your call your pissy little 3 that you thought was a sure loser wins the last hand and all sorts of ranting and raving goes on. Its exhausting and we ridicule each other all night long. If you can get 4 regular players together start up a championship like we have, it will test your friendship like no other game. Why? Because it's a mongrel of a game. cheers.
We play a variant of this where we don't turn over the top card to determine trumps. At the start of bidding no-one knows what suit is going to be trumps, BUT, the person who bids the HIGHEST number of tricks (first if two people call the same) then calls trumps AFTER the round of bidding (to many groans around the table). From then on the game is played the same, except we stop when we get down to 2 cards each and then go back up again. Oh, and for those that have ever played Bridge then NO TRUMPS is an option as well as the four suits.
Very similiar to "Differenzler", a variation of "Jass", which is basically THE Swiss national card game. There's even a weekly TV show during summer that tours through different cities to determine the ultimate Jass city live on national TV.
My family plays this game from 10 down to 1 with trump, then 1 card without trump and then 1 and back up to 10 with trump. We called this game "Scotch Bridge".
Did this game come from Spanish game called La Pocha? I am trying to find the rules for the spanish version - I have a spanish deck and apparantely you play this game with only 40 cards, while here I think you play with all the cards+ standard deck? I used to play La Podrida as a kid but can't remember the rules and can't really find any good guides anywhere. Any advices let me know :)
As others have mentioned, Oh Hell is very much like Rage (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/568/rage) which has been around since 1983. Rage adds special cards that can cause the trump to be cancelled or changed as well as bonus positive or bonus negative point cards plus a wild card that can be anything. I've been playing it since the last 1980s and it's one of my favourite games.
This is called Plump in Sweden, but I've never played with trump card (trump colour freakin sucks in card games) and also the person who said the highest number of tricks is the one who starts playing. Also, if you guess zero tricks taken and win, you'll only get five points (instead of ten), since it's a lot easier to complete.
If you like the sounds of this game people should look into "Rage" It is basically the same game with a special bigger deck of cards. (6 suits #s 0-15) with grey cards that are not a suit, some are points cards and some let you alter the trump mid round!
This game is the best. We play from 1-10 and back, betting with our hands all at the same time, and cycling through the trump suit each round. We also play a “no-trumps” round which makes it very hard to guess how many tricks you will win!
In case anyone was paying attention and was confused: He shouldn't have been able to play that 2 of Spades in the second round - because in the first round it should have been played instead of the 9 of hearts. You can only skip suit if you do not have a card of that suit to play. (He probably did this just to demonstrate how trump cards work.)
I learned Oh Hell from the book of games sold via insert card in Bicycle decks of cards supposed name is because what you usually say ... (when going over)
There's a good game that's another whist variant where it combines whist and poker in a way that's quite balanced but I can't remember the name (I thought it was casino or Boston but googling those aren't the right games). Basically the interesting thing is that you use the same hand for both so you might have a good poker hand but a naff whist hand or vice versa. You score points in both parts of the game but I can't remember the details! Some friends taught it me on holiday a few years ago and we played it non stop for a week, some good times
So confused with the rules. You said you didn't have a spade so you played something else, then in the following trick you said you didn't have a club and played a spade... Think I'll go find another video to teach me.
My family plays this game where the winner gets 10 + (whatever they bet) squared so if someone were to bet 6 and win 6 then they would get 46 pts, however if you lose you take whatever you missed on your bet and square that and then minus those points so if I bet 7 and only got 5 then i'd be missing by 2 and lose 4 pts.
We call it "Nobse" in our group and it's quite alike. But we start with 1 card and go up and there basically is no trump card, which still works good. To get a trick, you have to play the highest card. It gets really nasty when someone comes out with an 8 and everyone else starts to smirk and slips out a lower card, usually breaking the game for the first player. But you can also try to bait with low numbers and try to get your count of tricks. I really like it, though it takes longer than most other card games we play in the pub. Also we have this special rule that when you announce 0 tricks on your turn and manage to not get any tricks, you write down a strike (or something as a reminder) and once you get three of them in a row, you get a bonus. And I think the bonus ramps up with every three strikes, but it's rare enough that someone gets three in a row at all.
We play this game with 6 to 10 peoples. Just add more decks to cover the total deal. Then the second (or third if your using three decks) of the duplicate card beats the other card. We call the game Bug your neighbour because of this duplicate card rule.
One additional rule I often play with is that the 2's switch the trump suit for that trick to the suit of the played 2. Any additional 2 would change the trump suit again, unless the 2 is played with the suit of the normal trump in which case the normal trump suit is fixed. This makes games a little more unpredictable.
So in India we played this with multiple decks and as many people as it would allow. 7 down to 1 and up again. In the last round of 7 card instead of the trump suit being revealed, the first person to not have a card of the leading suit can declare the suit of his choice. It was called Judgement based on your skill at judging the likelihood of making tricks
a version i know is very similar called bollen. only with 4 players. you start with 1 card in hand and go up to 7 cards with a trump. 1 round of 7 with no trump and back down again from 7 to 1 card with trump. every round you try to guess how many hits you get. the winner is the one with the least failures. with a tie, you count the amount of hits betted and succeeded.
We used to play it in university. Many an hour spent on this game. Especially fun with a few drinks and lots of people with a single card on their head trying to out think each other
Take a look at Ninety Nine. A much more elegant and head scratching game using the same base rule set. For three players only but I highly recommend it.
