Talk:Oh Hell

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We have played this game for years as "Mormon Bridge". I am adding that name to the list of alternates and linking to this article from that name. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.182.235.15 (talk • contribs).

[edit] number of hands

As played at LASFS, a four-player game goes 3, ..., 12, NT, NT, NT, NT, 12, ..., 3 — each player deals a no-trump hand in the middle of the game, and the 1- and 2-card hands are not played because they're too chaotic to be interesting. (Exception: a five-player game includes the 2-card hands, so that the same player does not suffer the first and last "dealer disadvantage".) —Tamfang 22:27, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extra-profane names

Does this game really go by the name of "Oh Cunt"? It seems unlikely to be a widely used name because (1) "cunt" is such a strongly taboo word in most circles and (2) it's not used much as a general expletive. A bit of googling failed to turn up any sign of the game being known by this name, other than in copies of this article. I am skeptical. The edit that introduced the "Oh Cunt" name also introduced "Oh Fuck" and "Fuck your Neighbour", both of which are more plausible but neither of which, if really a name for this game, has left any trace I could find with Google. I suspect that either 220.238.44.174 (on 2005-11-14) was, er, playing games, or else s/he has run across a small group of determined and eccentric antibowdlerizers and taken their nomenclature a bit too seriously. (For what it's worth, most edits from 220.238.44.174 seem respectable.) Anyone got any evidence that the game is ever actually called "Oh Fuck", "Oh Cunt" or "Fuck your Neighbour"? If not, I propose to remove at least OC and FYN. (Maybe not OF, just because a game whose most usual name is "Oh Hell" must quite often be antibowdlerized and "oh fuck" is such a common expletive, so I bet it gets called that sometimes.) Gareth McCaughan 00:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)