The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Carlit, Noris Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Gustav Weise Verlag, Walter Flechsig, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, M. Dittert & Co, Catullus, Kasco Mills, (Public Domain), St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Cartamundi, Russell Manufacturing Company, Milton Bradley, Otto Maier Verlag, Sala, National Game Company, Richard Hauenstein, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Kaba, Piatnik, MIKA, G.M. Whipple, General Mills, Kultquartett, Franz Schmidt, Groneweg & Meintrup, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Volkswagen/Audi, I.C.C. Product, Granna, Schüle-Hohenlohe, KOSMOS, ONKEL & ONKEL, Damm / Egmont, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Sage, Sons & Co., McLoughlin Brothers, J. Bünting & Co., Rudolf Forkel KG, The United States Playing Card Company, Cincinnati Game Co., Whitman, Review and Herald Publishing, Lookout Games, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Jos. Scholz, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Great American Game Company, Spear's Games, Klee, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Nathan, Erhard Neubert KG, SchneiderBuch, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Selecta Spielzeug, Mulder, Bevink Edities, Schmidt Spiele, Fireside Game Co., Peliko Oy, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Eurofranchising B.V., Carl Werner, Tactic, F.X. Schmid, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Adolf Sala, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Weltquartett, Humanus-Spiele, Glücksklee, Djeco, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Warren Built Rite Games, AMIGO, Grimaud, (Unknown), Schwager & Steinlein, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Multicolor, Parker Brothers, Jumbo, St. Briktius
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Erika Leo-Urban, Louis Rauwolf, Richard Hambach, Erich Neubert, Harry Baerg, Ernst Stapelfeld, Richard Scarry, Heinz Jankofsky, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Hans de Beer, Virginijus Poshkus, Delphine Durand, Hubert Lechner, Fiep Westendorp, M. Neugebauer, Erich Ohser, Franz Kerka, Willy Müller-Gera, Hergé, Klemens Franz, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Anne Erler-Reichold, Traude Schlegel, Werner Ruhner, Uwe Rosenberg, Klaus Vonderwerth, Janosch, Käthe Francke, Manfred Bofinger, Jürgen Kieser, Rolf Kauka, Barbara Henniger, Wilhelm Busch, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Arnold Zenkert, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Heinz Osthoff, Peyo, Liesel Lauterborn, Annemarie Gramberg, Horst Schrader, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Max Schaberschul, Siegfried Riediger, F. W. Martin Wolff, Werner Graichen, Harri Parschau
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Carlit, Noris Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Gustav Weise Verlag, Walter Flechsig, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, M. Dittert & Co, Catullus, Kasco Mills, (Public Domain), St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Cartamundi, Russell Manufacturing Company, Milton Bradley, Otto Maier Verlag, Sala, National Game Company, Richard Hauenstein, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Kaba, Piatnik, MIKA, G.M. Whipple, General Mills, Kultquartett, Franz Schmidt, Groneweg & Meintrup, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Volkswagen/Audi, I.C.C. Product, Granna, Schüle-Hohenlohe, KOSMOS, ONKEL & ONKEL, Damm / Egmont, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Sage, Sons & Co., McLoughlin Brothers, J. Bünting & Co., Rudolf Forkel KG, The United States Playing Card Company, Cincinnati Game Co., Whitman, Review and Herald Publishing, Lookout Games, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Jos. Scholz, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Great American Game Company, Spear's Games, Klee, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Nathan, Erhard Neubert KG, SchneiderBuch, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Selecta Spielzeug, Mulder, Bevink Edities, Schmidt Spiele, Fireside Game Co., Peliko Oy, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Eurofranchising B.V., Carl Werner, Tactic, F.X. Schmid, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Adolf Sala, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Weltquartett, Humanus-Spiele, Glücksklee, Djeco, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Warren Built Rite Games, AMIGO, Grimaud, (Unknown), Schwager & Steinlein, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Multicolor, Parker Brothers, Jumbo, St. Briktius
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Erika Leo-Urban, Louis Rauwolf, Richard Hambach, Erich Neubert, Harry Baerg, Ernst Stapelfeld, Richard Scarry, Heinz Jankofsky, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Hans de Beer, Virginijus Poshkus, Delphine Durand, Hubert Lechner, Fiep Westendorp, M. Neugebauer, Erich Ohser, Franz Kerka, Willy Müller-Gera, Hergé, Klemens Franz, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Anne Erler-Reichold, Traude Schlegel, Werner Ruhner, Uwe Rosenberg, Klaus Vonderwerth, Janosch, Käthe Francke, Manfred Bofinger, Jürgen Kieser, Rolf Kauka, Barbara Henniger, Wilhelm Busch, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Arnold Zenkert, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Heinz Osthoff, Peyo, Liesel Lauterborn, Annemarie Gramberg, Horst Schrader, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Max Schaberschul, Siegfried Riediger, F. W. Martin Wolff, Werner Graichen, Harri Parschau
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
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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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Märchen-Quartett ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Grands Rois ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Indians of the Old West ,
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Zitterbacke ,
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Flower Families ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
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Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Blumen Quartett ,
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Münchhausen ,
Fury ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Artists ,
Robinson ,
Vogelwelt ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Die Schweiz ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Weidmannsheil ,
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Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
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Vokabel-Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
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Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
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Erstes Bilderquartett ,
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Tyrannen Quartett ,
Fipps der Affe ,
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7 Hühnchen ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
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Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Children's Authors ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
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Fairy Tales ,
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Famous Women ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Firkort ,
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Opern Quartett ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Agricola Quartett ,
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Deutschlands große Söhne ,
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Whitman 4497 ,
Animal Quartette ,
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Autograph Authors ,
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Baseball Greats ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
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Wickie ,
Deutsches Land ,
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Bettsport-Quartett ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
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Yellowstone ,
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American Women Authors ,
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Richard Scarry Firkort ,
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Tom Sawyer ,
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Don Quichote ,
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