Rules to oh shit card game

Played with a full deck of standard playing cards without any Jokers. It is a close cousin to the game Oh Hell and has varying rules depending on where it is played. These are the rules that playohshit. There is a total of 19 rounds in the game. The number of cards dealt to each player is determined by the round.

Ten cards are initially dealt and then one less each consecutive round until only one card is being dealt. After the one card round an additionally card is dealt each round until there are 10 cards dealt.

The following steps are repeated for each round: Cards are dealt starting with the player to the left of the dealer. The trump suit is shown see trumps. Each player makes their bid for the round starting with the player to the left of the dealer see bidding and scoring. The player to the left of the dealer plays a card of their choice. In a clockwise direction each player plays a card. If a player can follow suit they must.

After each player has played their cards the trick is evaluated. The person who played the highest card of the lead suit the suit the first player played wins the trick. The only exception would be if a player could not follow suit and trumped the trick. Round two, each player will get 9 cards; round three, 8 cards; etc. Each hand starts with bidding.

Starting with the player to the dealer's left, each player decides how many tricks they can take, given their hand. Spades are trump meaning, spades always beat non-spades , and you must follow the suit played if you have it; if you do not have a card in the played suit, you may choose to play spades to take the trick, or you may play an off suit card. If you take the number of tricks you bid, you get 10 points plus your bid so, if you bid 2, you get 12 points.

You can bid zero if you don't think you can take any tricks. If you don't take the number of tricks you bid, you don't get any points. The total bids can not add up exactly to the number of available tricks. This is what gives this game it's colorful name -- someone will always end up not getting their bid.

So for instance, if you have five cards in your hand and there are three players, and the first play bids 2 and the second player bids 1, then the third player must bid something besides 2 which would equal 5, the total number of available tricks. Once a player has pushed in their final stack, they continue playing "on honor" or "on grace". A player exits the game after losing a round in which he was "on honor" or "on grace". The game may also be played with the highest card being the loser, instead of the lowest.

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