In the 1970's Sheila's dad Raymond Berg taught us a new game called "Up and Down the River" (also known as "Oh Hell". It was a lot of fun - the more people that played the better. Unfortunately my version only supports a maximum of six people.

Judy Stanley helped test this game for me. Judy has been a big help in debugging several of my games.

Three people who I never met also deserve special mention. The game was inspired because of work done by a gentleman from Iceland (Einar Egilsson) who created a javascript library (cards.js) and an example game to demonstrate how to use the library. He made the library available to anyone who wanted to use it under what is called a MIT license. I didn't use his engine or his work on any of my games because his work was too advanced for me - if I had used his work you would enjoy this game even more as his animated cards are fantastic. Part of his work used cards (art work) created by Nicu Buculei who made his work available as well. The card images in this game were created by Nicu. For rules on how to play I relied on both the rules as my family played the game, and on various online rules sites. One of them deserves special mention as my main "go to" site for rules and variations - John McLeod maintains Pagat.com.

Finally, and most important of all my wife Sheila Smith put up with me while I worked on the game. <

 

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