There is more about the game Oh Hell! at the end. This makes it perfect for scoring Oh Hell!, which was the original intention, but also useful for games such as Hearts, California Jack, Gin Rummy. This card scorer is designed to score in relatively straightforward games where a simple tally and maybe a bidding record is required.Īfter much research and many prototypes we came up with this two sided design that allows scoring up to 159 on one side and on the other side a bidding indicator from zero to 13 as well as a suit indicator. Nowadays there are even smartphone apps which can serve as card game scorers, but these seem to defeat one of the purposes of playing cards in the first place - to escape the smartphone! Several games such as bezique, canasta and cribbage have rather complex scoring and dedicated devices.
This instructable documents our quest to create a scoring device that can be used for multiple card games.
