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