Big & Little

This game is suitable for 3 or more players. If you have more than 5 players, you may want to use two decks. Deal out an entire deck of 52 cards cards evenly among the players. If you have cards leftover, set them aside without looking at them. For example, with 3 players you deal 17 cards to each player with 1 remaining.

Play
One player starts and plays a card to the center of the table. The next players, in order, play a card of the same suite if they have it, otherwise they may play any card of any suite. Once all have played a card, the one who played the highest card (of any suite) wins the trick and wins all of the cards in the trick except for the winning card. The winning card goes to the player who played the lowest card (of any suite). In case of ties, later players beat out earlier players for high card and for low card. The winner then leads on the next trick.

Scoring
Once all the tricks have been played, each player scores each suite separately based on the number of cards in each suite. If you have only 1 or 2 cards in a suite, you score the combined face value on the cards. Jack, Queen, and King count as a face value of 10, and Aces count as 11. If you have 3 or more cards, however, you score only 1 point per card.

So for example, if in Hearts, you have a 9 and King of hearts, you score a total of 19 points for Hearts. If however, you have a 9, King, and Ace of hearts, you score only 3 points--because you have 3 cards in this suite. Add up your score for each suite for a combined total.

Strategy
This game has better strategy than Spades. As you can see, you would prefer to win even 2 low cards rather than 3 high cards. The lowest 2 cards in a suite would give you 5 points as compared to 3 points. If your opponents are doing well, you might try to "lose" a couple of cards in those suites to them to lower their score.

Unlike in Spades, you can do well with a hand of high cards, low cards, and even medium cards to avoid winning tricks containing cards in a suite that would hurt you.

It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
--Michel Eyquem De Montaigne