Having started on BGA with @lalunaverde and @RogerBW have also played 99 with my parents and then with my youngest and my Dad.
It’s a trick taking and bidding game using 6-A in the four suits of a standard deck plus a joker. The cool wrinkle is that when you bid for tricks you do so using cards you take out of your hand. Diamond is zero, spade is one, heart 2 and club 3. You have to bid with 3 cards,so you aim for anywhere between 0 or all 9 tricks. You get a point per trick, plus a bonus for hitting your bid.
You can also bet, making your bid open is a 30 point bet. Making your bid open and playing with an open hand is 60 points.
Like this…
This hand didn’t go well!!!
The secret bids remove cards from the game, which adds an extra twist.
It’s really good, definitely gone past Dou Dizhu as my favourite 3 player card game with a standard deck (not played Cribbage with 3 yet)