Call your shot. Then make it.
Oh Hell has been played at kitchen tables for a hundred years, and the rule is simple: before each hand, say exactly how many tricks you'll take. Hit the number and you score ten plus your bid. Take one too many, or one too few, and... aw hell. Every hand changes size, from a fistful of cards down to a single one and back, so a bid of zero can be the bravest call at the table.The back room at the Lone Star
Pull up a chair in a neon-lit bar back room, under the chandelier, with the fire going. The cards fly, the chips click, the regulars lean in when the bids come out. It's a card game, and it looks like one worth staying late for.Play it how your family plays it
Every table picks its house rules: biggest hand, down-and-back-up or down only, secret bids or around the table with the dealer hook, who leads, whether trump has to be broken, and what a miss costs you. Set them once and the lobby shows them to everyone before the deal.Friends, strangers, or the house bots
Open a table and send the link, list it publicly for anyone to join, or sit down alone against Wade, June, Hank and the rest of the regulars, who bid and play like people who've lost before. Two to seven seats. Nobody has to wait on a slow player: leave mid-game and a bot finishes your hand.Ranked, if you want it
Sign in and any table can be ranked. Results move a skill rating, your career stats pile up, and the leaderboard remembers who bid zero and meant it.Make yourself at home
Build your character in the back room: hair, beard, hat, glasses, clothes, the lot. Your look follows your account to every device.Learn it in five minutes
A built-in How to play deals a scripted game and talks you through trump, following suit, the bid, and the one card that wins a trick you didn't want. Then it walks every house rule and setting.Need a fourth?
The Aw Hell Discord is where players find a table, report bugs and read the patch notes. The invite is in the game's main menu and on the website linked from this page.Music: "Slow Burn", "Porch Swing Days", "Whiskey on the Mississippi" and "Cattails" by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. Further tracks by Sonican, HarumachiMusic, Roybushband, AudioDollar and moodmode via Pixabay.
