Oh Hell! - Contract Whist

Coppercod

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About this game

Oh Hell! is the one of the world’s most popular Whist-style card games, also known as Contract Whist, Oh Well!, German Bridge, Blackout or Up and Down the River. It is a fun, fast-paced game for card players of all skill levels.

Free to play. Track your stats and play against smart AIs. Download Oh Hell! now for your smartphone or tablet!

Oh Hell! is a fast and fun card game for all levels of players! Looking for a challenging game? Switch to hard mode and take on Coppercod’s AI with perfect memory. Test your brain while you play!

Track your all time and session stats to see how you improve!

To win Oh Hell! you must score more points than your opponents. Points are scored by winning tricks, and by correctly predicting how many tricks you will win each round. The winner is the player with the highest points after a fixed number of rounds. There can be more than one winner.

Play standard rules, with options to make Oh Hell! the perfect card game for you:
● Choose between 3 and 7 players
● Set the 'Screw the Dealer' rule on or off
● Set the ‘Nil Bid Worth 5’ rule on or off
● Set the Trump suit to Alternate, Next Card or No Trumps
● Choose between four types of game: Up, Down, Up and Down or Down and Up
● Choose between easy, medium or hard mode
● Replay the round from either the bid or the play
● Review the previous hands in the round
● Choose normal or fast play
● Turn single click play on or off

You can also customise your color themes and card decks to choose from to keep the landscape interesting!

Quickfire Rules
Oh Hell! follows the rules of standard trick-taking card games. A card is beaten either by a higher card of the same suit, or any trump card. Once a card is played, other players must play a card from the same suit. If they do not hold any cards from this suit, they may choose to Trump, playing any
trump card to win, or to Throw Away, playing any non-trump card to lose the trick.

Each trick scores one point, and correctly predicting how many tricks you will win at the bidding stage scores 10 points per round, or 5 if you bid 0 and the ‘Nil Bid Worth 5’ setting is switched on.

Ratings and reviews

Previous app "Contract Whist" stopped working (Android) after years of enjoyment. Was surprised that I ended up likithis one enough to purchase, but I play a lot. Only odd thing I noticed is that, if you have a hand dealt, then exit, then go back on later, it deals a new hand, different from the one you had.

The interface is good, and the mechanics of gameplay seem solid. I appreciate the various options for rules and game play. I wish there was an option for zero points if you miss your bid. I wish there was an option for simultaneous (blind) bidding, still with "screw the dealer". The algorithm for the computer players is okay but not great, even at the hard level, for both bidding and card selection.

This is the only game I play on my phone on a regular basis. Would you add another option in scoring? That is when the number of tricks taken are less than the number of bids, the score should be minus ten, ten, minus the number of bits. For example: if someone bids three and took less than three tricks, the score should be minus thirteen.

What's new

Thank you for playing Oh Hell! This version includes:
- Stability and performance improvements