Players are awarded 1 point for each trick they win during a round plus 10 points if they won exactly the number of tricks they bid. The round ends when players have no more cards in their hand.

The player who wins the trick leads the next trick. If more than one person plays a club, the player with the highest club wins the trick. If the trump suit is clubs, a club will be beat any hearts played in the round regardless of their value. You cannot win the trick if you play a different suit from the one that led unless you play a card of the trump suit.

If a player does not have hearts in their hand, they may play a card of any suit. For example, if the first card played in a round was a 10 of hearts, each subsequent player must play a heart. Cards of the trump suit automatically beat cards of any other suit. If a player does not have any cards of the suit that led, they can play a card of a different suit. Aces are worth the most and 2’s the least. To take a trick, you must play the highest value card of the round. Play proceeds around the circle with all subsequent players following suit, meaning they play a card of the same suit (hearts, diamonds, clubs or spades) as the person who led the round. Then, the player to the left of the dealer plays a card, which will be the leading suit. Write down each person's bet for reference. After studying their cards, each player says the number of tricks they believe they’ll win that round. The top card from the remaining deck is flipped over, with the suit of the card becoming the trump suit. For a 4 player game, you could start with 12 cards per person while for a 6 player game you could start with 8 per person. You should not deal out all the cards since you need a few remaining cards each round. To begin each hand, an equal number of cards is dealt to each player.

The game is best played with 4-6 players. The objective of the card game Oh Hell is to earn points by taking the exact number of tricks per round that you initially guessed you would.

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