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The Game of Authors (1861)

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

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.



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