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Possible Turn-offs: Serious gamers may eschew Oh Hell because of its lightness and relatively high luck factor. No one is happy when they end up taking a trick they don’t want with a 4 of a non trump suit, but sometimes it happens. But as long as you’re not too competitive, those moments add to the fun rather than detract from it. Especially when they happen to someone else.
Basic Strategy Tips: The biggest factor in your Oh Hell strategy will be the number of players. With a smaller number of players you will take more tricks and must adjust your bidding accordingly. You should expect higher total scores with more players too - with more cards in play, players have a better understanding of what to expect from their opponents.
0 is almost always the easiest bid to make. If you can get rid of one suit entirely in your hand, ditching high cards can be a breeze. But when you bid make sure to pay attention to what your opponents bid. Your 10 of trump looks like a guaranteed trick when everyone else bids 0, but it probably won’t do so good when there are large bids in front of you.
Often times you will see the number of bids match the number of tricks. Meaning it is possible for no one to 'go set' or miss their bid. This is an excellent scenario if you are in the lead because typically if no one goes set, you remain in the lead. However, you may want to avoid this in the second half in the game if you are losing and see the leader make a tricky bid. You may be more comfortable making the bid that would match the total tricks, but sometimes you have to take a risk if you want to catch up.
Summation Oh Hell, or any of it's many variants, is a great casual game for a wide variety of skill levels. It is a great game for when you want to keep the focus of game night on the social aspect. It is a must-play for fans of trick-based card games.
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Card Game Dammit
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What's the best 'entry level' card game?
Arlight, so I just watched the south park episode Cock Magic and I'm slightly tipsy so I wanna get into a card game, dammit. But it can't be too expensive. All I know about is Magic (but I've heard that's way too addicting and eats up your wallet) and yu-gi-oh, but the last time I heard about someone playing that was middle school. I also heard about Heathstone, but I've heard it can be kind of pay-to-win (isn't every card game pay to win, though?). Anyways, what would be the best card game to just 'dive into' and start out with?
Dammit! is another rare solitaire game by Robert Roberds and BSX International. Theodor Lauppert gives a good overview and impression of the game at his website:
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Rules For Card Game Dammit
'Like so many solitaire games, [Dammit!] relies far more on chance than strategy and is nearly impossible to beat. Thus its title is appropriate. You will utter this phrase a lot while playing it. The basic idea of Dammit is simple. You lay out the cards one by one on a 4x4 grid. Your goal is to arrange the face cards like this: [two rows of K Q Q K separated by two rows of Jacks that form the edges]. As soon as the grid is full, you can remove all the tens and the pairs (or, if you play by the 'wimpy' rules, groups) that that add up to ten. As soon as you get a face card that cannot be positioned properly, you lose. It is this last rule that make it especially difficult. However, you can beat it.. The game itself is not Roberds' invention. He says he learned it at college. But his is the only computer implementation I know.'
Compared to other solitaire originals from BSX such as Forzee and Wowzee, Dammit! is not as fun to play. This is largely because it relies far too heavily on luck to the point of making strategy virtually irrelevant. Relaxing the rule that makes you lose as soon as you get an invalid card would have made Dammit! more fun in my opinion. Regardless, it is still an original solitaire game I haven't seen anywhere else, and well worth adding to your collection of card games if you love solitaire. Like other BSX games I reviewed, this is actually marketed as 'shareware' but since the registered version is identical to the shareware one (except for the absence of 'nag screen'), I have labelled it abandonware here.
Luger serial number suffix. People who downloaded Dammit! (a.k.a. Darnit) have also downloaded:
Discovery: In The Steps of Columbus, Dam Busters, The