The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Tactic, (Public Domain), Kasco Mills, Sage, Sons & Co., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Bielefelder Spielkarten, General Mills, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Great American Game Company, KOSMOS, St. Briktius, Piatnik, SchneiderBuch, Klipps Kaffee, Carl Werner, Adolf Sala, Klee, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Humanus-Spiele, Fireside Game Co., Multicolor, Weltquartett, Volkswagen/Audi, Erhard Neubert KG, Nathan, Groneweg & Meintrup, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, MIKA, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Gustav Weise Verlag, Parker Brothers, Djeco, M. Dittert & Co, Russell Manufacturing Company, AMIGO, Bevink Edities, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, I.C.C. Product, Lookout Games, Franz Schmidt, Kultquartett, Wilder Manufacturing Co, McLoughlin Brothers, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Granna, Jos. Scholz, Milton Bradley, Schmidt Spiele, G.M. Whipple, The United States Playing Card Company, Eurofranchising B.V., H. P. Gibson & Sons, Richard Hauenstein, Review and Herald Publishing, Schwager & Steinlein, Spear's Games, Walter Flechsig, Otto Maier Verlag, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Jumbo, Mulder, ONKEL & ONKEL, Peliko Oy, Whitman, Cartamundi, Warren Built Rite Games, J. Bünting & Co., Cincinnati Game Co., F.X. Schmid, Catullus, Glücksklee, Kaba, Carlit, Noris Spiele, Damm / Egmont, (Unknown), Sala, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Selecta Spielzeug, Rudolf Forkel KG, National Game Company, Grimaud
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Harri Parschau, Klemens Franz, Peter Bauer, Erich Ohser, Anne Erler-Reichold, Siegfried Riediger, Uwe Rosenberg, Erich Neubert, Liesel Lauterborn, Harry Baerg, Käthe Francke, Traude Schlegel, Hans de Beer, Heinz Osthoff, Fiep Westendorp, Hubert Lechner, Richard Scarry, Jürgen Kieser, Janosch, Hergé, Max Schaberschul, Horst Schrader, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Wulff, Virginijus Poshkus, M. Neugebauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Delphine Durand, Wilhelm Busch, Heinz Jankofsky, Louis Rauwolf, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Annemarie Gramberg, Franz Kerka, Barbara Henniger, Peyo, Manfred Bofinger, Arnold Zenkert, Ernst Stapelfeld, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Werner Ruhner, Werner Graichen, Klaus Vonderwerth, Richard Hambach, Rolf Kauka, Regine Grube-Heinecke
Mechanics: Hand Management, Memory, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Tactic, (Public Domain), Kasco Mills, Sage, Sons & Co., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Bielefelder Spielkarten, General Mills, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Great American Game Company, KOSMOS, St. Briktius, Piatnik, SchneiderBuch, Klipps Kaffee, Carl Werner, Adolf Sala, Klee, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Humanus-Spiele, Fireside Game Co., Multicolor, Weltquartett, Volkswagen/Audi, Erhard Neubert KG, Nathan, Groneweg & Meintrup, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, MIKA, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Gustav Weise Verlag, Parker Brothers, Djeco, M. Dittert & Co, Russell Manufacturing Company, AMIGO, Bevink Edities, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, I.C.C. Product, Lookout Games, Franz Schmidt, Kultquartett, Wilder Manufacturing Co, McLoughlin Brothers, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Granna, Jos. Scholz, Milton Bradley, Schmidt Spiele, G.M. Whipple, The United States Playing Card Company, Eurofranchising B.V., H. P. Gibson & Sons, Richard Hauenstein, Review and Herald Publishing, Schwager & Steinlein, Spear's Games, Walter Flechsig, Otto Maier Verlag, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Jumbo, Mulder, ONKEL & ONKEL, Peliko Oy, Whitman, Cartamundi, Warren Built Rite Games, J. Bünting & Co., Cincinnati Game Co., F.X. Schmid, Catullus, Glücksklee, Kaba, Carlit, Noris Spiele, Damm / Egmont, (Unknown), Sala, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Selecta Spielzeug, Rudolf Forkel KG, National Game Company, Grimaud
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Harri Parschau, Klemens Franz, Peter Bauer, Erich Ohser, Anne Erler-Reichold, Siegfried Riediger, Uwe Rosenberg, Erich Neubert, Liesel Lauterborn, Harry Baerg, Käthe Francke, Traude Schlegel, Hans de Beer, Heinz Osthoff, Fiep Westendorp, Hubert Lechner, Richard Scarry, Jürgen Kieser, Janosch, Hergé, Max Schaberschul, Horst Schrader, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Wulff, Virginijus Poshkus, M. Neugebauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Delphine Durand, Wilhelm Busch, Heinz Jankofsky, Louis Rauwolf, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Annemarie Gramberg, Franz Kerka, Barbara Henniger, Peyo, Manfred Bofinger, Arnold Zenkert, Ernst Stapelfeld, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Werner Ruhner, Werner Graichen, Klaus Vonderwerth, Richard Hambach, Rolf Kauka, Regine Grube-Heinecke
Mechanics: Hand Management, Memory, Set Collection
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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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Illustrated Mythology ,
Don Quichote ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Tierkinder ,
Bonanza ,
Famous Authors ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Weidmannsheil ,
In the White House ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Führer Quartett ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Oldtimers II ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
The Lion King ,
Fairy Tales ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Citatenquartett ,
Komponisten ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Deutsches Land ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Grosswild ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
American Authors ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Children's Authors ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Holy Land ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Durch den Harz ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Grands Rois ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Flags ,
Famous Women ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Sternbilder ,
Animal Quartette ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Tobias Taps ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Das Heer ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Game of Nations ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Astronomy ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
American Women Authors ,
Der Rhein ,
Aus nah und fern ,
The Game of Authors ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Vogelwelt ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
In Castle Land ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Münchhausen ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Baseball Greats ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
The Author's Game ,
Flower Families ,
Schwarzwald ,
Chats Katten ,
Game of Strange People ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
In Castle-Land ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Artists ,
Authors Card Game ,
Shakespeare ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Kasco ,
Skippy ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Firkort ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Inventors ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Quartett ,
Explorers ,
Composers ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Authors ,
The Great Composers ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Poems ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Blühender Garten ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Scientists ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
New Testament Game ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Tropical Fish ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Yellowstone ,
Merry Circus ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
The Game of Cities ,
Märchen ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Inside the White House ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Im Märchenland ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Alpenblumen ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Wickie ,
Baustile ,
So fängt es an... ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Pinocchio ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Max und Moritz ,
Blumenquartett ,
Tier Quartett ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Football Greats ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Bergwelt ,
Die Schweiz ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Autograph Authors ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Unter Geiern ,
White Squadron ,
Animal Quartett ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Fury ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Game of Flowers ,
Zitterbacke ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
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Jasper Quartett ,
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Kleine Tierwelt ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
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Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Städte-Quartett ,
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Astro Quartett ,
Robinson ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Märchenquartett ,
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Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Mini Monster ,
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