The 'Screw the Dealer' rule is not used in the version played in West Virginia, South Carolina, Rural Maryland, and Pennsylvania with the dealer being free to make any bid. However, if five cards are dealt, and the first three bids are three, one and two, then the dealer is free to make any bid. For example, if five cards are dealt, and the first three bids are two, zero and one, then the dealer may not bid two. That is, every deal must in total be either overbid or underbid. Bidding is unrestricted except for the screw the dealer rule: the number of tricks bid cannot equal the number available. The player to the left of the dealer bids first. Alternatively, the maximal round trump suit can be determined in a variety of ways: for instance, by revealing the dealer's last card as in whist, by cutting the pack before dealing or the dealer can decide the trump before seeing his own cards.)Įach player now bids for the number of tricks he believes he can win. (If there are no unused cards, the largest hand is played without a trump suit. After the dealing is complete, the next card is turned face up, and the suit of this card determines the trump suit for the deal, which is why only up to 12 cards are dealt in a four-player match. The dealer (initially determined by cutting cards) deals out the cards one by one, starting with the player to his left, in a clockwise direction, until the required number of cards has been dealt. During a hand, each player bids for a number of tricks, then attempts to take exactly that many tricks during the hand. With six or more players, the game can be played with two decks combined or with a 63-card deck from six-player 500.Ī game consists of a fixed number of hands, and each hand consists of dealing a certain number of cards to each player, depending on the variation and the number of players. The game is played using a standard 52-card deck, with ace (A) being the highest rank, two (2) the lowest. Oh Hell can be played with almost any number of players (3+) although 4-7 is considered optimal.

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