Ninety-Nine
Add your card to the running total. Kings jump to 99, and whoever can’t stay under 100 loses a life. 2–8 players.
Also known as 99.
How to play Ninety-Nine
- 1Everyone starts with three cards and three lives. Take turns playing one card onto the pile in the middle and adding it to a running total that starts at zero, then draw a card to get back to three.
- 2Twos, threes, fives, sixes, sevens and eights add their number. Jacks and queens add 10. An ace adds 1 or 11, your pick. A ten adds 10 or takes 10 away, your pick.
- 3Some cards are special: a four reverses the direction of play and adds nothing, a nine adds nothing, and a king makes the total exactly 99.
- 4The total must never go past 99. If it's your turn and every card in your hand would push it over, you lose a life and the round ends.
- 5Lose your last life and you're out. The last player with a life left wins.
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