Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 06:07 am
Classic Oh Hell – Family Game Review
Classic Oh Hell is a Family/Card game from Coppercod Ltd, first launched in 8th October 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 552+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Classic Oh Hell Stand Out
Oh Hell! is the one of the world’s most popular Whist-style card games, also known as Contract Whist, Oh Well!, German Bridge, Blackout or Up and Down the River. It is a fun, fast-paced game for card players of all skill levels.
Free to play. Track your stats and play against smart AIs. Download Oh Hell! now for your smartphone or tablet!
Oh Hell! is a fast and fun card game for all levels of players! Looking for a challenging game? Switch to hard mode and take on Coppercod’s AI with perfect memory. Test your brain while you play!
Track your all time and session stats to see how you improve!
To win Oh Hell! you must score more points than your opponents. Points are scored by winning tricks, and by correctly predicting how many tricks you will win each round. The winner is the player with the highest points after a fixed number of rounds. There can be more than one winner.
Play standard rules, with options to make Oh Hell! the perfect card game for you!
● Choose between 3 and 7 players
● Set the 'Screw the Dealer' rule on or off
● Set the ‘Nil Bid Worth 5’ rule on or off
● Set the Trump suit to Alternate or Next Card
● Choose between four types of game: Up, Down, Up and Down or Down and Up
● Choose between easy, medium or hard mode
● Choose normal or fast play
● Turn single click play on or off
You can also customise your color themes and card decks to choose from to keep the landscape interesting!
Quickfire Rules
Oh Hell! follows the rules of standard trick-taking card games. A card is beaten either by a higher card of the same suit, or any trump card. Once a card is played, other players must play a card from the same suit. If they do not hold any cards from this suit, they may choose to Trump, playing any
trump card to win, or to Throw Away, playing any non-trump card to lose the trick.
Each trick scores one point, and correctly predicting how many tricks you will win at the bidding stage scores 10 points per round, or 5 if you bid 0 and the ‘Nil Bid Worth 5’ setting is switched on.
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Classic Oh Hell is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Thank you for playing Classic Oh Hell! This version includes:
- Stability and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Classic Oh Hell is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like the ability to change the options for playing. Our only complaint is the app does not always play as well as we think it should.
Great game. Would love a version where we can play live opponents and friends. But everyhing else is perfect. Good graphics.
This is pretty decent although playing against the computers isnt always played as we would think it should. Makes us think our strategy.
We like the straightforward game play and recommend this app. We wish there was a better way to see how the scoring is tabulated so we can learn what bets are most rewarded.
Absolutely love this game! You have the ability to customize the rules you play by, how ads are displayed (theyre minimal), and various other features. We would recommend this card game as well as others made by the same creator.
We learned this game many years ago. Glad to have this version that allows lots of options. We think choosing the nil bid and screw the dealer makes you often say Oh Hell.
Used to enjoy playing this at lunch with our co-workers. Its great to find on line and we have added it to our other on-line card games by the same company! Thanks for the memories.
Really good card game app. Easy and no fuzz.
Love this game ! Its great for when we cant get together with friends to play ! Our favorite game.
Fun game. Lots of strategy. We dont think this one is rigged like the gin games…. At least not yet.
We used to play this game when we were a kid. We loved it then. Its great to bring in back.
Lots of fun, realistic card strategy that can be played at three different levels. Highly recommended.
Great game, but no sound after updating to iOS 17.4. ( developer update).
A very good on-line version of a game we love.
We like keeping our skills sharp for when we play with friends.
Surprising and challenging! Can be customized for harder levels! Your opponents are generally dirty rotten scondrels! We would like to have an option to UNDO a play and choose another card. It would give an edge against the low down stinking rastards that thwart our brilliant plans.
Use to play a version of this game called: 10,9,8. Spent hours playing this with our friends. Spent quite a few hours playing this game on our phone. Great game, thanks.
It is a very accurate version and we highly recommend we have been playing for hours.
Just wish we could play against real people in real time. Being able to create invite-only games would be wonderful.
We use to play this game with friends but we didnt know the name of it. We called it "that silly little game" because a friend's mom called it that. Now we know the name. Super fun game.
Really fun game reminds us Of college.
This is a good game but could use some tweaks and polishing. When a game ends, sometimes the option to start a new game appears at the bottom of the screen and sometimes theres nothing there. Then we have to close the app and re- open it. An undobutton is needed because its too easy to touch the wrong card. Theyre small. We dont like that the screen switched to the scoresheet in a nano- second after the last play. Its annoyingly. But all- in – all its very playable and we enjoy it. Polishing it up a bit would make it much better.
Game is great, however, it has developed a terrible glitch, game freezes and you are forced to close game in middle of hand. Also, we would like to have opportunity to change scoring, scoring zero if you do not score exact bid. Thanks.
Should have option to not allow points when bidding 0. Should allow option to not allow any points when not making your bid. Allow option to get minus 10 when you dont make your bid.
Two problems with the rules that make it less interesting: 1. Total bids from all players cant be equal to the number of tricks available, which is the source of the name of the game (e.g., last bidder in a 4-card hand wants to bid 1, but the total of the other three bidders is 3Oh hell!) 2. Players who win fewer tricks than their bid get ZERO points! Other scoring correct (10 point bonus for equally bid, number of tricks for exceeding bid).
Very slow loading. Very difficult to beat, even in easy mode. Lots oh high trump cards in every round. Not sure its honest.
Wish the screen would rotate Landscape so you could see all players when bid board comes up. Also score pops up immediately after last trick played so you cant see final bids/tricks taken….which to us is extremely annoying. Not enough explanation about game, how deal plays out with reduced cards, etc for beginners. No undo if you accidentally tap screen and/or play wrong card….which should be available as a setting as….undo on/off…especially for beginners.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.7.10
- Size: 35.25 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Coppercod Ltd
Last updated: 14th April 2025 | Genre: Family, Card | Developer: Coppercod Ltd