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