Joker AI: Oh Hell Card Game

If you grew up on Spades or Oh Hell, you know the best moment in cards: you call your tricks, and the whole table watches whether you make it. Joker is how Georgia plays it — thirty-six cards, two jokers and a score sheet that remembers every promise. Joker AI puts it on your phone: call exactly how many tricks you'll take, then take exactly that many. No more. No less.

THE GAME
• Four players, each for themselves. Thirty-six cards — six through ace, with two jokers in place of the black sixes.
• Make your bid exactly and the contract pays; miss it either way and every trick pays just ten; bid and take nothing, and it's a shtanga.
• A joker beats everything, the ace of trumps included. Take a trick with it or throw it away — or lead it, name a suit and make everyone play their highest, or give the trick away.
• 24 hands in four chapters: one card up to eight, four hands of nine, eight back down to one, and four nines to finish. Keep every promise in a chapter and your best line doubles.
• Want a longer night? Extra chapters follow the game: Golden, where every trick pays 100; No-trump; Dark, with blind bids and cards face down; and Misère, where every trick costs you — unless you take all nine.

THE TABLE
• Play now: a seat in seconds, sharp bots fill the empty chairs.
• Private tables: seat friends, the characters of Amavie or bots, and pick the rules and the extra chapters before the first deal.
• Open tables: players from Quick play take the empty chairs.
• Lilith, Noll and the other characters of Amavie play with everyone, free and without limits. Each has a character of their own: they react to the game, answer when you talk to them and needle each other — about the cards, never instead of your move.
• Keep the table chat open in a corner, or switch it to the moves: who bid what, who led what, who took the trick.
• Every hand goes on the score sheet in ink, and the whole table can doodle in its margin.
• Need to step away? A bot plays your chair until you're back. At a private table with friends, anyone can ask for a short pause.

RANKED AND TOURNAMENTS
• Ranked games, leagues and a rating. A ranked table waits a minute for a player who steps away; leaving costs rating.
• Tournaments: the Evening Arena every day, the Cup of 16 and the Saturday Grand Prix. Trophies for places 1 to 3 are only won, never sold.
• Season I, the Founders, runs from October 1 to December 31.
• Your journal keeps every finished game with its full score sheet — rematch the same table in one tap.

YOUR STYLE
• Decks with their own card faces, tables, frames, pens that write your column in their own hand, titles and gifts.
• Everything in the style shop is cosmetic and costs quanta: nothing changes the cards you're dealt.

Lilith and Noll teach you the game in a few minutes in an interactive lesson; the full rules live in the app.

Joker AI is made by Amavie: one free account and one balance across the Amavie apps.