Oh Hell Scorekeeper makes keeping score for a game of Oh Hell easier than ever before. It’s also designed to help newcomers learn the game, with easy-access help at every stage of the game, from entering player names to dealing, bidding and scoring.
Features:
- Play up to 13 cards
- Play Up Only, Up & Down, Down & Up, or Down Only
- Adjustable bonus for making bid
- Adjustable points per trick for made hand
- Adjustable points per trick for lost hand
- Adjustable bid limit enforcement
- Players, options and settings preserved between games
- Screens progress naturally and easily through game
- Color-coded functions
- ‘Final Hand’ and ‘Game Over’ indicators
- Bidding screen shows player scores
- Scoreboard includes optional “Bids Made” totals listing
- Details screen includes optional Bid / Took listings
- Optional help text makes learning the game easy
- Help text for each Option setting makes setup easy
Oh Hell is a game played under many different names – Wikipedia lists over 70! Some of the more popular are Nomination Whist, Up and Down the River, Oh Pshaw, Oh Heck, Swing 13, Riki Tiki, La Podrida, and many more. There are many variations to the gameplay, and I’ve included the ability to select many of these in this app, under “Options”. If you need another option not already included in order to play the game your favorite way, please email me and I’ll do my best to update the app with options needed to play it your way.