Ninety-nine is a card game for 2, 3, or 4 players. It is a trick-taking game that can use ordinary French-suited cards. Ninety-nine was created in 1967 by David Parlett, whose goal was to have a good three-player trick-taking game with simple rules yet great room for strategy. In ninety-nine, players bid for the number of tricks that they will take; players who gain exactly that number of tricks, no more or less, gain a significant bonus. One unusual feature of ninety-nine is that players bid by discarding three cards.
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1. Ninety-nine (trick-taking card game) (Wikipedia)
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It is a trick-taking game that can use ordinary French-suited cards.
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Ninety-nine is a card game for 2, 3, or 4 players.
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Ninety-nine was created in 1967 by David Parlett
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