The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Sala, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Otto Maier Verlag, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Whitman, Richard Hauenstein, Tactic, Cartamundi, J. Bünting & Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Great American Game Company, Granna, Franz Schmidt, Carlit, Gustav Weise Verlag, Walter Flechsig, Klee, Weltquartett, Selecta Spielzeug, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Volkswagen/Audi, Multicolor, Adolf Sala, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, (Public Domain), (Unknown), McLoughlin Brothers, Kultquartett, Milton Bradley, Warren Built Rite Games, G.M. Whipple, ONKEL & ONKEL, National Game Company, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Catullus, Noris Spiele, SchneiderBuch, Cincinnati Game Co., Erhard Neubert KG, Kasco Mills, AMIGO, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, General Mills, Review and Herald Publishing, Kaba, Spear's Games, Sage, Sons & Co., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, M. Dittert & Co, Jumbo, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Eurofranchising B.V., Schüle-Hohenlohe, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Glücksklee, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Lookout Games, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Humanus-Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Rudolf Forkel KG, Damm / Egmont, Djeco, MIKA, Grimaud, Carl Werner, Groneweg & Meintrup, I.C.C. Product, Nathan, KOSMOS, Parker Brothers, H. P. Gibson & Sons, F.X. Schmid, Peliko Oy, Bevink Edities, St. Briktius, Schwager & Steinlein, Piatnik, Fireside Game Co., The United States Playing Card Company, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schmidt Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Mulder
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Peter Bauer, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Osthoff, Heinz Jankofsky, Jürgen Kieser, Harry Baerg, Werner Graichen, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peyo, Annemarie Gramberg, Werner Ruhner, Käthe Francke, Klemens Franz, Delphine Durand, Liesel Lauterborn, Fiep Westendorp, Barbara Henniger, Traude Schlegel, Willy Müller-Gera, Erich Ohser, Hans de Beer, Manfred Bofinger, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Uwe Rosenberg, Max Schaberschul, Ernst Stapelfeld, Hergé, Max Wulff, Janosch, Virginijus Poshkus, Siegfried Riediger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Horst Schrader, Louis Rauwolf, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Richard Hambach, Harri Parschau, M. Neugebauer, Erich Neubert, Arnold Zenkert, Richard Scarry, Hubert Lechner, Anne Erler-Reichold, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Erika Leo-Urban, Franz Kerka
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Sala, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Otto Maier Verlag, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Whitman, Richard Hauenstein, Tactic, Cartamundi, J. Bünting & Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Great American Game Company, Granna, Franz Schmidt, Carlit, Gustav Weise Verlag, Walter Flechsig, Klee, Weltquartett, Selecta Spielzeug, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Volkswagen/Audi, Multicolor, Adolf Sala, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, (Public Domain), (Unknown), McLoughlin Brothers, Kultquartett, Milton Bradley, Warren Built Rite Games, G.M. Whipple, ONKEL & ONKEL, National Game Company, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Catullus, Noris Spiele, SchneiderBuch, Cincinnati Game Co., Erhard Neubert KG, Kasco Mills, AMIGO, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, General Mills, Review and Herald Publishing, Kaba, Spear's Games, Sage, Sons & Co., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, M. Dittert & Co, Jumbo, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Eurofranchising B.V., Schüle-Hohenlohe, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Glücksklee, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Lookout Games, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Humanus-Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Rudolf Forkel KG, Damm / Egmont, Djeco, MIKA, Grimaud, Carl Werner, Groneweg & Meintrup, I.C.C. Product, Nathan, KOSMOS, Parker Brothers, H. P. Gibson & Sons, F.X. Schmid, Peliko Oy, Bevink Edities, St. Briktius, Schwager & Steinlein, Piatnik, Fireside Game Co., The United States Playing Card Company, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schmidt Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Mulder
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Peter Bauer, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Osthoff, Heinz Jankofsky, Jürgen Kieser, Harry Baerg, Werner Graichen, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peyo, Annemarie Gramberg, Werner Ruhner, Käthe Francke, Klemens Franz, Delphine Durand, Liesel Lauterborn, Fiep Westendorp, Barbara Henniger, Traude Schlegel, Willy Müller-Gera, Erich Ohser, Hans de Beer, Manfred Bofinger, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Uwe Rosenberg, Max Schaberschul, Ernst Stapelfeld, Hergé, Max Wulff, Janosch, Virginijus Poshkus, Siegfried Riediger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Horst Schrader, Louis Rauwolf, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Richard Hambach, Harri Parschau, M. Neugebauer, Erich Neubert, Arnold Zenkert, Richard Scarry, Hubert Lechner, Anne Erler-Reichold, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Erika Leo-Urban, Franz Kerka
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, 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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Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
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Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Merry Circus ,
Tier Quartett ,
American Women Authors ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
So fängt es an... ,
The Author's Game ,
Explorers ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Vogelwelt ,
Quartets ,
Sternbilder ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Yellowstone ,
Shakespeare ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Bergwelt ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Children's Authors ,
The Lion King ,
The Great Composers ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Fairy Tales ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Citatenquartett ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Game of Nations ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Animal Quartette ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
In Castle Land ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Tierkinder ,
In the White-House ,
Oldtimers II ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Tobias Taps ,
Pinocchio ,
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Das Pflanzenreich ,
Max und Moritz ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
White Squadron ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Bonanza ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Disney Kwartet ,
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Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
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Flower Families ,
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Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
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Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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Football Greats ,
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