The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Cincinnati Game Co., Djeco, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Klipps Kaffee, F.X. Schmid, Cartamundi, Russell Manufacturing Company, SchneiderBuch, General Mills, Walter Flechsig, I.C.C. Product, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Otto Maier Verlag, J. Bünting & Co., Whitman, Gustav Weise Verlag, Spear's Games, National Game Company, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Lookout Games, Grimaud, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, G.M. Whipple, Piatnik, Peliko Oy, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Noris Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Review and Herald Publishing, Catullus, Carlit, Kaba, Groneweg & Meintrup, Rudolf Forkel KG, Parker Brothers, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Warren Built Rite Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, ONKEL & ONKEL, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Granna, Schwager & Steinlein, Humanus-Spiele, The United States Playing Card Company, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Klee, Great American Game Company, Kasco Mills, H. P. Gibson & Sons, KOSMOS, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Richard Hauenstein, Franz Schmidt, Damm / Egmont, Volkswagen/Audi, Glücksklee, St. Briktius, M. Dittert & Co, Merrimack Publishing Corp., AMIGO, Eurofranchising B.V., Multicolor, (Unknown), (Public Domain), Sala, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Selecta Spielzeug, Schmidt Spiele, Nathan, Weltquartett, Erhard Neubert KG, Kultquartett, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Mulder, Fireside Game Co., Sage, Sons & Co., Jumbo, Adolf Sala, Carl Werner, Tactic, Bevink Edities, McLoughlin Brothers, MIKA, Milton Bradley
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Janosch, Richard Hambach, Louis Rauwolf, Delphine Durand, Manfred Bofinger, Harri Parschau, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Jürgen Kieser, Heinz Jankofsky, Ernst Stapelfeld, Klemens Franz, Käthe Francke, Annemarie Gramberg, Harry Baerg, Franz Kerka, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Peter Bauer, Virginijus Poshkus, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Peyo, Hubert Lechner, Erich Neubert, Siegfried Riediger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Traude Schlegel, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Liesel Lauterborn, Heinz Osthoff, Klaus Vonderwerth, Arnold Zenkert, Fiep Westendorp, Hans de Beer, Erich Ohser, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Max Wulff, Uwe Rosenberg, Richard Scarry, F. W. Martin Wolff, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Schaberschul, Hergé, Barbara Henniger, M. Neugebauer, Horst Schrader
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Cincinnati Game Co., Djeco, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Klipps Kaffee, F.X. Schmid, Cartamundi, Russell Manufacturing Company, SchneiderBuch, General Mills, Walter Flechsig, I.C.C. Product, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Otto Maier Verlag, J. Bünting & Co., Whitman, Gustav Weise Verlag, Spear's Games, National Game Company, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Lookout Games, Grimaud, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, G.M. Whipple, Piatnik, Peliko Oy, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Noris Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Review and Herald Publishing, Catullus, Carlit, Kaba, Groneweg & Meintrup, Rudolf Forkel KG, Parker Brothers, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Warren Built Rite Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, ONKEL & ONKEL, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Granna, Schwager & Steinlein, Humanus-Spiele, The United States Playing Card Company, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Klee, Great American Game Company, Kasco Mills, H. P. Gibson & Sons, KOSMOS, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Richard Hauenstein, Franz Schmidt, Damm / Egmont, Volkswagen/Audi, Glücksklee, St. Briktius, M. Dittert & Co, Merrimack Publishing Corp., AMIGO, Eurofranchising B.V., Multicolor, (Unknown), (Public Domain), Sala, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Selecta Spielzeug, Schmidt Spiele, Nathan, Weltquartett, Erhard Neubert KG, Kultquartett, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Mulder, Fireside Game Co., Sage, Sons & Co., Jumbo, Adolf Sala, Carl Werner, Tactic, Bevink Edities, McLoughlin Brothers, MIKA, Milton Bradley
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Janosch, Richard Hambach, Louis Rauwolf, Delphine Durand, Manfred Bofinger, Harri Parschau, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Jürgen Kieser, Heinz Jankofsky, Ernst Stapelfeld, Klemens Franz, Käthe Francke, Annemarie Gramberg, Harry Baerg, Franz Kerka, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Peter Bauer, Virginijus Poshkus, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Peyo, Hubert Lechner, Erich Neubert, Siegfried Riediger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Traude Schlegel, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Liesel Lauterborn, Heinz Osthoff, Klaus Vonderwerth, Arnold Zenkert, Fiep Westendorp, Hans de Beer, Erich Ohser, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Max Wulff, Uwe Rosenberg, Richard Scarry, F. W. Martin Wolff, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Schaberschul, Hergé, Barbara Henniger, M. Neugebauer, Horst Schrader
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
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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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Yellowstone ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
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Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
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Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
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Wickie ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett ,
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Great Women: Foremothers ,
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