Contract Whist (Oh Hell)
Free GameAbout Contract Whist (Oh Hell)
The game is a close variation on Romanian whist, Oh Hell, Oh Pshaw, Nomination Whist, Up the River, Up and down the River, Vanishing Whist, Hell Yeah!, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Blackout, O'Shay, Oh Shit, Nah Pearse, German Bridge in Hong Kong.
Contract Whist is a free trick based card game where you play against 2-5 AI opponents or live online multiplayer. You play with a standard deck of playing cards. Play consists of 2 phases.
Bidding Phase:
The bidding phase is where each player selects the number of tricks they think they are going to win in that hand. You select your bid by use of the bid buttons. The last player to bid cannot bid to make the total bids equal the number of cards in the hand. This is so that not all players are able to win as many tricks as bid. The number bid represents the exact number of tricks that player thinks they will win not the lowest number of tricks they think they will win.
Play Phase:
The play phase starts with the player to dealer's left selecting any card from their hand. Each player then follows by playing a card of the same suit if possible with the highest card winning the trick. If a player has no cards of the same suit they may either discard an unwanted card or play a trump.
The trump suit is indicated in a box to the top-right of screen.
Trumps have the effect of beating the suit led and once one is played the highest trump wins the trick.
The trick winner then starts the next trick by again selecting any card from their hand. If "NT" is displayed in the Trumps area there are no trumps in this hand.
Scoring:
After the hand is finished each player is given 1 point for every trick they won and an additional 10 points if they won as many tricks as they bid.
The score-sheet is displayed with the number of cards in the hand in the furthest left column and the players' scores so far in the remaining columns.
Romanian Whist:
Romanian whist is a variation on contract whist where only the top cards are used to make 8 per player e.g. 3 players only A,K,Q,J,10,9 are used. The number of cards in the hand starts at 1 and there is 1 round like this per player, then the number of cards increases by 1 each round to 8, then there is 1 round of 8 for each player. Lastly the number of cards decreases back to 1 and then there is 1 round again per player. In the long version cards start at 8, go to 1, then back to 8. Trumps are decided by turning the top card after the deal. If you have a trump and trumps are not led you must play the trump. If the number of cards is 8 then there are no trumps. Each player scores the number of tricks they bid plus 5 if they make the contract. If they miss the contract deduct 1 for each trick over or under.
Now with added multiplayer!
Contract Whist is a free trick based card game where you play against 2-5 AI opponents or live online multiplayer. You play with a standard deck of playing cards. Play consists of 2 phases.
Bidding Phase:
The bidding phase is where each player selects the number of tricks they think they are going to win in that hand. You select your bid by use of the bid buttons. The last player to bid cannot bid to make the total bids equal the number of cards in the hand. This is so that not all players are able to win as many tricks as bid. The number bid represents the exact number of tricks that player thinks they will win not the lowest number of tricks they think they will win.
Play Phase:
The play phase starts with the player to dealer's left selecting any card from their hand. Each player then follows by playing a card of the same suit if possible with the highest card winning the trick. If a player has no cards of the same suit they may either discard an unwanted card or play a trump.
The trump suit is indicated in a box to the top-right of screen.
Trumps have the effect of beating the suit led and once one is played the highest trump wins the trick.
The trick winner then starts the next trick by again selecting any card from their hand. If "NT" is displayed in the Trumps area there are no trumps in this hand.
Scoring:
After the hand is finished each player is given 1 point for every trick they won and an additional 10 points if they won as many tricks as they bid.
The score-sheet is displayed with the number of cards in the hand in the furthest left column and the players' scores so far in the remaining columns.
Romanian Whist:
Romanian whist is a variation on contract whist where only the top cards are used to make 8 per player e.g. 3 players only A,K,Q,J,10,9 are used. The number of cards in the hand starts at 1 and there is 1 round like this per player, then the number of cards increases by 1 each round to 8, then there is 1 round of 8 for each player. Lastly the number of cards decreases back to 1 and then there is 1 round again per player. In the long version cards start at 8, go to 1, then back to 8. Trumps are decided by turning the top card after the deal. If you have a trump and trumps are not led you must play the trump. If the number of cards is 8 then there are no trumps. Each player scores the number of tricks they bid plus 5 if they make the contract. If they miss the contract deduct 1 for each trick over or under.
Now with added multiplayer!
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Game History & Updates
What's Changed
v2.01 Added multiplayer beta version. Please email qsoft@live.co.uk with any feedback.
v2.1 Added hard AI difficulty (may be slow on some devices). Double points if you beat it!
v2.4 Added transfer of old ratings (email qsoft@live.co.uk for this).
v3.2 Added on-screen settings button.
v2.01 Added multiplayer beta version. Please email qsoft@live.co.uk with any feedback.
v2.1 Added hard AI difficulty (may be slow on some devices). Double points if you beat it!
v2.4 Added transfer of old ratings (email qsoft@live.co.uk for this).
v3.2 Added on-screen settings button.
More downloads Contract Whist (Oh Hell) reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
Version update Contract Whist (Oh Hell) was updated to version 3.2
Version update Contract Whist (Oh Hell) was updated to version 2.90
Version update Contract Whist (Oh Hell) was updated to version 2.85
What are users saying about Contract Whist (Oh Hell)
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Maybe you do a bridge app too. Those in play/market are realy bad. THANK YOU for the game and for the great variation of it. Make id and pass for all players
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Complaints about not being able to bid exact number of tricks misses the point. That's part of this game's charm - and frustration!
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The only thing this app is missing is a Hardcore difficulty setting.
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Good game and good design app, really enjoy it but i think the scoring systerm is wrong on this app.Maybe the designer should look in it,if that is sorted then it would be a 5star.
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The scoring sucks. It is not really Honest. You win a game and your high score still goes down
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Najbolja kartaroska igra na androidu ikad.Jedina zamerka je jedna u pravilu igre,zasto kad neko nema da odgovori na protivnikovu kartu tj znak,zasto on moze da baci bilo koji drugi znak,pravilo je kad nema neko odgovor na znak da mora da izbaci aduta,pa ako nema ni aduta onda moze da izbaci bilo koji znak.
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The trump Jack means nothing where my variation has the trump jack and similar colour jack being the highest two cards, not the aces of every colour
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Not worth the trouble to download.
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What is wrong with Contract Whist?
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This kid a good game. Really fun. Little bit different to vanishing whist that I play at home. Only thing I wish you could extend the game to go back up to 8 hands. Also should add loosing points for not getting your bet
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Ok...I play it, and it's kinda fun. BUT - I am NOT a good, accurate, or even particularly observant card player. However, assuming a 52 card deck (I do know that's what it's supposed to be) even I notice when the King of Spades or Ace go by at least three times in the same hand, amongst other oddities. I suspect that this game would earn a failing grade in a computer programming class. What's up with those algorithms? * I only play offline. The game may play differently online in multiplayer mode.
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I would rate higher, but the software is written so when you are the last bidder, the clear number of tricks you would want to bid is exactly the number the game won't let you bid since the bids can't equal the number of available tricks. Very frustrating to automatically lose 2 or 3 hands a game because the software is designed to make you lose. A true random deal wouldn't happen this way so often.
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Can you please add an option for all players to bid simultaneously? I've been playing with this variation for years with family and friends. I really dislike any other way.
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Won't let me start the game (play a card) if I am first player to lead out in 6 player down game.
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5 stars if there was an undo (or some other option) for accidentally played card. Also when I am not playing last there is not enough time to see all the cards of the deck. Finally I would like to be able to check the table score during a round.
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Frustrating to force the player on occasions to pick the number of tricks he does not want to play, for example if I want 4 tricks, I am unable to pick 4, annoying
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Nice app but it could be better :) Adding an option to run the game in full screen is a must in my opinion. Also, some sound effects when shuffling & dealing cards will be very nice to have (music is optional as many might prefer to play games without any music or listening to their own music). The game has a beautiful design, so nothing to complain here, but some extra backgrounds or at least an option to use your own pictures as background would be nice to have as well
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Is a smart, intelligent game and makes your mind ágil. But... it crash a lot, is imposible to get in with my LTE 4g only works when I have wifi, and anyway crash inside de game like 50 % of the time. If we have to pay for the APP to help you guy's to fix it, will do. Please try to make it better is a excellent game. Thanks
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Love the format . Very playable - BUT - There never seem to be many players and those there are have no sense of adventure ! They seem to only play block 13 card game and none of the better build games on offer .
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I tried out several Whistler games and this one is best by far
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Used to play with Great-grandfather and he always had lemon drops and peppermint in his pockets for me!
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Does not always recognise when trumps are being played after another suit has been played first. This is frustrating when playing to make exact contract. Put this right for 5 stars
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but needs improvement on connectivity. I cannot connect to any playing table and cannot create one. Graphics and actual play could use an upgrade as well but it stays the best option for whist on Google Play.
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Cool game. Easy to use and nice and fast.
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Used to play this in England. Still love it after all these years
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Good game to keep busy.
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Played 100's of games on my blackberry ... plays extremely well. This android version looks and feels the same.
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The only thing this app is missing is a Hardcore difficulty setting.
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Needs to improve the design
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I like it just have to keep it on maximum to play regular whist
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The game is challenging and true to the rules of the game. Sometimes the opponents don't bid well, like bidding 1 when they have a 2 as the last player. I am addicted!
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Love the game, seems use a lot of battery though. Some improvements would be to put the trump suit in the middle as background, I forget it sometimes. Could multiplayer allow games to start with bots then you're not bored waiting for someone to join? Excellent game, love playing it.
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Best yet. would like to see an option when you could call the exact number of tricks available, but still the best!
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Very challenging whist. I enjoy it
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But what happened to the Bowers?
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the game cheats sometime. someone else gets a trick that they didn't win.
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Addictive, just can't put it down once I start
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Indiferent de numarul jucatorilor, la joc de 1, cand sunt primul jocul se blocheaza.
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True to the game, but the way we score it, you subtract points for not making your contact.
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If a player wishes to make a bid that makes the total number of bits equal to the amount of tricks dealt, so what. By forcing a player to bid other than what they wish is ludicrous and unfair.