The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Grimaud, Carl Werner, Kultquartett, G.M. Whipple, J. Bünting & Co., H. P. Gibson & Sons, (Public Domain), Jos. Scholz, Kasco Mills, Eurofranchising B.V., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, Kaba, Warren Built Rite Games, General Mills, Klipps Kaffee, Lookout Games, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Fireside Game Co., St. Briktius, Rudolf Forkel KG, Franz Schmidt, Peliko Oy, Granna, Catullus, I.C.C. Product, KOSMOS, Damm / Egmont, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Volkswagen/Audi, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Russell Manufacturing Company, Walter Flechsig, Whitman, Great American Game Company, Parker Brothers, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Erhard Neubert KG, Otto Maier Verlag, ONKEL & ONKEL, Schwager & Steinlein, MIKA, AMIGO, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Nathan, Review and Herald Publishing, McLoughlin Brothers, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Richard Hauenstein, Mulder, F.X. Schmid, Sala, Gustav Weise Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Milton Bradley, (Unknown), Cincinnati Game Co., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Groneweg & Meintrup, Glücksklee, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, The United States Playing Card Company, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Cartamundi, Spear's Games, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schmidt Spiele, Piatnik, National Game Company, Multicolor, Weltquartett, Sage, Sons & Co., Selecta Spielzeug, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Carlit, Noris Spiele, SchneiderBuch, Klee, Tactic, Jumbo, Djeco, Humanus-Spiele, Adolf Sala
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Erich Neubert, Heinz Osthoff, Hubert Lechner, Wilhelm Busch, Louis Rauwolf, Arnold Zenkert, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Peter Bauer, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Anne Erler-Reichold, Franz Kerka, Max Schaberschul, Horst Schrader, Virginijus Poshkus, Klaus Vonderwerth, Willy Müller-Gera, Traude Schlegel, Hans de Beer, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Rolf Kauka, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Erika Leo-Urban, Janosch, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hergé, Peyo, Barbara Henniger, Jürgen Kieser, Käthe Francke, Klemens Franz, M. Neugebauer, Fiep Westendorp, Siegfried Riediger, Annemarie Gramberg, Liesel Lauterborn, Max Wulff, Harri Parschau, Manfred Bofinger, Erich Ohser, Richard Scarry, Harry Baerg, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Uwe Rosenberg, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Heinz Jankofsky, Ernst Stapelfeld
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Grimaud, Carl Werner, Kultquartett, G.M. Whipple, J. Bünting & Co., H. P. Gibson & Sons, (Public Domain), Jos. Scholz, Kasco Mills, Eurofranchising B.V., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, Kaba, Warren Built Rite Games, General Mills, Klipps Kaffee, Lookout Games, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Fireside Game Co., St. Briktius, Rudolf Forkel KG, Franz Schmidt, Peliko Oy, Granna, Catullus, I.C.C. Product, KOSMOS, Damm / Egmont, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Volkswagen/Audi, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Russell Manufacturing Company, Walter Flechsig, Whitman, Great American Game Company, Parker Brothers, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Erhard Neubert KG, Otto Maier Verlag, ONKEL & ONKEL, Schwager & Steinlein, MIKA, AMIGO, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Nathan, Review and Herald Publishing, McLoughlin Brothers, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Richard Hauenstein, Mulder, F.X. Schmid, Sala, Gustav Weise Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Milton Bradley, (Unknown), Cincinnati Game Co., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Groneweg & Meintrup, Glücksklee, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, The United States Playing Card Company, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Cartamundi, Spear's Games, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schmidt Spiele, Piatnik, National Game Company, Multicolor, Weltquartett, Sage, Sons & Co., Selecta Spielzeug, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Carlit, Noris Spiele, SchneiderBuch, Klee, Tactic, Jumbo, Djeco, Humanus-Spiele, Adolf Sala
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Erich Neubert, Heinz Osthoff, Hubert Lechner, Wilhelm Busch, Louis Rauwolf, Arnold Zenkert, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Peter Bauer, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Anne Erler-Reichold, Franz Kerka, Max Schaberschul, Horst Schrader, Virginijus Poshkus, Klaus Vonderwerth, Willy Müller-Gera, Traude Schlegel, Hans de Beer, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Rolf Kauka, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Erika Leo-Urban, Janosch, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hergé, Peyo, Barbara Henniger, Jürgen Kieser, Käthe Francke, Klemens Franz, M. Neugebauer, Fiep Westendorp, Siegfried Riediger, Annemarie Gramberg, Liesel Lauterborn, Max Wulff, Harri Parschau, Manfred Bofinger, Erich Ohser, Richard Scarry, Harry Baerg, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Uwe Rosenberg, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Heinz Jankofsky, Ernst Stapelfeld
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
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Authors - One of the earliest versions of the family of Go Fish games, in which players call on each other to give up a named card, attempting to meld sets for points, based on which set of the game it is (e.g. the first melded set gets 10 points, the second gets 5 points). When all sets have been melded, most points wins.
From The Card Games Website
This is Go Fish without the stock pile. All the cards are dealt out as equally as possible to the players. A turn consists of asking a player for a rank (or a specific card if you play that version). If they have it your turn continues; if not the turn passes to the player you asked. As in Go Fish, you must have a card of the rank you asked for. Books of 4 cards are discarded. The game continues until all the cards are formed into books, and whoever gets most books wins - or you can score one point per book and play to a target score.
This game is often paired in the same deck with Top Trumps
Happy Families - An even earlier (1851), British version with the educational theme centered on family members and their occupations.
Quartett - This is the German equivalent of Happy Families or Authors. Many different designs of cards were made for this game in the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century, with various educational or other themes.
From The Card Games Website
This is Go Fish without the stock pile. All the cards are dealt out as equally as possible to the players. A turn consists of asking a player for a rank (or a specific card if you play that version). If they have it your turn continues; if not the turn passes to the player you asked. As in Go Fish, you must have a card of the rank you asked for. Books of 4 cards are discarded. The game continues until all the cards are formed into books, and whoever gets most books wins - or you can score one point per book and play to a target score.
This game is often paired in the same deck with Top Trumps
Happy Families - An even earlier (1851), British version with the educational theme centered on family members and their occupations.
Quartett - This is the German equivalent of Happy Families or Authors. Many different designs of cards were made for this game in the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century, with various educational or other themes.
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Astronomy ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Firkort ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Inside the White House ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Die Schweiz ,
Führer Quartett ,
Game of Flowers ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Baustile ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Märchen ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Yellowstone ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
New Testament Game ,
Max und Moritz ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Merry Circus ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Deutsches Land ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
American Authors ,
Composers ,
Märchenquartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
The Game of Cities ,
Münchhausen ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Famous Women ,
Football Greats ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
In Castle-Land ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Big Valley ,
Zitterbacke ,
Durch den Harz ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Fipps der Affe ,
So fängt es an... ,
The Great Composers ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Schwarzwald ,
Alpenblumen ,
Children's Authors ,
Quartett ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Poems ,
Flower Families ,
Fury ,
Kwartet ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Game of Artists ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Komponisten ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
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Bonanza ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Baseball Greats ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Artists ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Authors ,
Explorers ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Presidents ,
Fairy Tales ,
Quartets ,
Holy Land ,
Astro Quartett ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Tobias Taps ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
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Geschützte Tiere ,
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Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Scientists ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
The Author's Game ,
Opern Quartett ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
American Women Authors ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Game of Nations ,
White Squadron ,
Tropical Fish ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Kasco ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Tierkinder ,
Chats Katten ,
In the White-House ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Blumenquartett ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Wickie ,
Grosswild ,
Famous Authors ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Citatenquartett ,
In the White House ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Pinocchio ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Authors Card Game ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
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Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Blühender Garten ,
Oldtimers II ,
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Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
In Castle Land ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
The Lion King ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
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Pioneers in Medicine ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Don Quichote ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
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Unter Geiern ,
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Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
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Indians of the Old West ,
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