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