Editing Oh hell (section)

== History ==
The rules are first described by B. C. Westall around 1930 under the name oh! well,<ref name=Parlett96/> and continued to be reprinted by [[Hubert Phillips]] until at least 1976.<ref>Phillips (1976), p. 176.</ref> The game was introduced into the United States very shortly after appearing in Britain and was first recorded in the New York clubs in 1931.<ref name=Parlett312/> In these early rules, the number of cards dealt was fixed depending on the number of players and game was 100 points.<ref name=P&W/>

Over the decades the game has been elaborated both in Britain and the United States, usually by increasing or decreasing the number of cards dealt per round, e.g., increasing the number from one to seven, from three to seventeen,<ref>Kansil (2001), pp. 42–43.</ref> or from seven to one and back to seven again.<ref name=Arnold2011>Arnold (2011), pp. 209–211.</ref> The game has many alternative names, but "oh hell" is by far the most common.

The original version, known as "oh! well", was described as "one of the best round games".<ref name=P&W/>