Catching up is easy to do. Deal three cards to each player.
Players can look at their own cards.
The rest of the deck goes facedown in the middle of the table as a draw pile. The object is to stay in the game by adding to the discard pile without letting the total go above ninety-nine and not to lose your ante. The player to the left of the dealer discards one card faceup and places it next to the draw pile, forming the discard pile, then picks up a card from the draw pile. Each player should always have three cards in her hand. The next person discards on top of the first person's card and calls out the total of the two cards, i.e. if the first discard was a five and the second a three, the total called out is eight.