Hook is a term used to mean the dealer may not bid a number of tricks that would make the total tricks equal to the number of bids made for the round.

If a player was forced to lead a joker, the first suited card played determined the suit of the trick. Andi Beben describes the four-player variant 7-truf played in Indonesia with a 32-card pack ranking from high to low A-K-Q-J-10-9-8-7 in each suit. If there are four people the maximum number of cards dealt may be 13 rather than 10, with three people you can go up to 17.The hook is that at least one player will fail on each hand, because the total number of tricks bid by the players may not equal the number of tricks available on that hand. Over 50 suggestions for use are detailed in the accompanying activity cards; including ways of using individual cards to facilitate discussion, identifying the positive and negative feelings of the Blobs shown on the cards, as well as combining cards to show more complex situations. Some players also refer to the game as Blackoutor Blob,this is most likely a reference to the practice of obliterating a player’s score sheet with a black ink blob if they fail to take the exact number of tricks they predicted. Apart from that, a joker could be played to any trick (even if the player could have followed suit).

The cards are shuffled and cut and the dealer deals the cards singly until everyone has the appropriate number of cards for the hand being played.

At DKM Oh Hell from the CardSharp suite you can play online against three computer opponents a version of Oh Hell with 10 card deals throughout. The groups of Blobs on these cards are acting in many familiar 'human' ways: celebrating, worrying, feeling left out and supporting each other. For 3 to 5 players 10 cards are dealt, for 6 players, 8 cards are dealt, and for 7 players 7 cards are dealt.

He currently works as a freelance people worker, conducting groupwork/ training/ facilitation in the corporate and voluntary sectors. Everyone must bid - it is not possible to pass, but you can bid zero, in which case your object is to take no tricks at all.is a trick-taking game in which the goal is the bid for the exact number of tricks one believes they will make. Several people have produced preprinted Oh Hell score sheets and applications, reflecting various scoring methods. David Parlett's 36-card game Ninety-Nine is based on similar principles, but with an extra twist to the bidding.