This page is based on a contributions from Chris Jepson, Anita Hollister, Alan Orcutt, Brad Wilson and Nicholas Cheung. Note that there are also other, quite different card games called 99 and 100. This is a fairly simple drinking game for 2 or more players, using a standard 52 card deck. Deal out four cards to each player and place the remainder face down to form the stock . The player to the dealer's left begins and play continues in clockwise order.
Players play their cards on the table to form a face-up pile alongside the stock.
At your turn you play one of your four cards to the face up pile, call out the new value of the pile, and then draw the top card from the face down stock to replace the card you played. At the start of the game there are no cards in the pile and its value is zero. The aim is to avoid taking the value above 98. The first person who makes the value of the pile more than 98 loses, and has to take a drink. The undealt cards are placed on the table to form a face-down stock.