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Oh Heck!

Card games are a great way to recreate when there is not much space or when you need to adapt an activity from a few to many participants. I grew up playing a game called "Oh Heck!" It is a trick-taking game . Many people call these tricks, hands, or books. For the purposes of this post, I will just refer to them as tricks. For other trick-taking games, I have a list at the bottom of the post with a few links to specific decks. Oh Heck! Materials Card Deck (Just regular face cards) Pencil/Pen Paper Play Dealer shuffles and deals out cards to all players. Deal out as many cards as possible to each player, so each player has the same number of cards with a few cards left over. No player should have more cards than another player.  Place the non-dealt cards in a pile face down next to the dealer. The dealer then turns over the top card of the leftover pile and places it face up back onto the pile. The suit of this card is the trump suit for the first round. The trump suit will ...