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