In this game the ranking of the cards is conventional with an Ace being the highest card and a 2 being the lowest and all other cards ranked in order.
When playing with five or fewer players, the standard 52 card deck works best. Unlike other trick taking games, the object of Oh Hell is to take the exact number of tricks you bid, no more and no less. Some of the more politically correct may prefer one of the variant names for this trick taking card game, such as Oh Pshaw, Oh Well, or Up and Down the River, but for everyone else, Oh Hell sufficiently captures the emotions which can change quickly in this up and down game.
