Some players also refer to the game as Blackout or Blob, this is most likely a reference to the practice of obliterating a player’s score sheet with a black ink blob if they fail to take the exact number of tricks they predicted. The name of the game offended some and so it is also known as the card games Oh Pshaw! or Oh Well!. Oh Hell! is a trick-taking game in which the goal is the bid for the exact number of tricks one believes they will make. NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 3-7 players NUMBER OF CARDS: 52 card deck RANK OF CARDS: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 TYPE OF GAME: Trick-Taking AUDIENCE: Adult OBJECTIVE OF OH HELL: Successfully bid the number of tricks they think they can take from each hand by taking that exact amount of tricks- no more and no less.
