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