notes/card_games/oh_heck.md

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author	date	title	tags	uuid
Akbar Rahman	\today	oh heck	card_games	c1e7bfd4-cadf-4cdc-a35c-c6c91bc81162

oh heck

access quickly at pls.cx/oh_heck

requirements

• deck of cards with 4 (or more?) suites
• some number of mates, m, where 2 <= m <= floor(52/n)
• pen and paper, notes app, or good memory

game

0. sit around table

1. shuffle deck

2. with n number of cards:

   a. deal n cards to each player b. take the card at the top of the deck and place it face up on the table.

   • the suit of this card is the trump suite.
   • trump suites rank higher than all cards in other suites.

   c. starting left of the dealer, each player places a bet on how many tricks they will win. the dealer's bet must result in the sum of the bets being not equal to n. d. play a trick: starting with the winner of the previous trick, or left of the dealer, each player places a card of their choice from their hand.

   • the first player picks the suite of the trick
   • trump cards can not be played first until a trump has been played
   • following players must play cards in that suite if they have one

   e. the player with the highest ranking card wins the trick f. go to step d until all hands are empty g. calculate each player's score and write it down: player_score = tricks_won + (10 if tricks_won equals bet)

3. go back to step 2 with n = n - 1 until n equals 0

4. highest score wins