Fly Away Jack & Jill (1894)

EQUIPMENT: a 48-card deck consisting of four suits: Fly Away Jill, Fly Away Jack, Come Back Jill, Come Back Jack. Each contains 12 cards ranked (lowest to highest) 1-9 plus A, B, C. SET UP: shuffle the cards and deal evenly to all players. Person to left of dealer goes first. PLAY: The first player lays down a card and the other players must follow suit-the highest card played (of the leading suit) wins the 'trick' (all played cards) and leads the next card. When all cards have been played scores are tallied. ONLY Fly Away Jacks are counted. GOAL: To be the person with the LOWEST score after three rounds-meaning, having taken the FEWEST Fly Away Jacks.