The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Nathan, National Game Company, Djeco, Damm / Egmont, Richard Hauenstein, Fireside Game Co., Klee, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Jos. Scholz, MIKA, SchneiderBuch, Bielefelder Spielkarten, (Unknown), Weltquartett, Multicolor, Jumbo, Otto Maier Verlag, Warren Built Rite Games, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, KOSMOS, J. Bünting & Co., ONKEL & ONKEL, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Verlag Bing Werke AG, F.X. Schmid, Great American Game Company, Lookout Games, McLoughlin Brothers, Bevink Edities, Eurofranchising B.V., Selecta Spielzeug, Schmidt Spiele, Carl Werner, Adolf Sala, Kasco Mills, Kultquartett, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, M. Dittert & Co, Franz Schmidt, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Klipps Kaffee, Glücksklee, Noris Spiele, Cartamundi, Gustav Weise Verlag, Groneweg & Meintrup, Tactic, Humanus-Spiele, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, General Mills, Rudolf Forkel KG, Cincinnati Game Co., Mulder, G.M. Whipple, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Granna, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Russell Manufacturing Company, Piatnik, Peliko Oy, AMIGO, Walter Flechsig, Catullus, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Review and Herald Publishing, I.C.C. Product, Carlit, Parker Brothers, Volkswagen/Audi, Schwager & Steinlein, Whitman, Milton Bradley, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Spear's Games, (Public Domain), Sala, St. Briktius, Grimaud, Erhard Neubert KG, The United States Playing Card Company, Sage, Sons & Co., U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Wilder Manufacturing Co, Kaba
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Klemens Franz, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Erich Neubert, Werner Graichen, Richard Scarry, Traude Schlegel, Jürgen Kieser, Max Schaberschul, Uwe Rosenberg, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Hans de Beer, Liesel Lauterborn, Käthe Francke, Annemarie Gramberg, Virginijus Poshkus, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Harri Parschau, Ernst Stapelfeld, Arnold Zenkert, Hergé, Heinz Osthoff, Werner Ruhner, F. W. Martin Wolff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harry Baerg, Manfred Bofinger, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Barbara Henniger, Horst Schrader, Peyo, Delphine Durand, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peter Bauer, Hubert Lechner, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Richard Hambach, Erich Ohser, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Franz Kerka, M. Neugebauer, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Heinz Jankofsky, Janosch, Louis Rauwolf
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Nathan, National Game Company, Djeco, Damm / Egmont, Richard Hauenstein, Fireside Game Co., Klee, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Jos. Scholz, MIKA, SchneiderBuch, Bielefelder Spielkarten, (Unknown), Weltquartett, Multicolor, Jumbo, Otto Maier Verlag, Warren Built Rite Games, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, KOSMOS, J. Bünting & Co., ONKEL & ONKEL, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Verlag Bing Werke AG, F.X. Schmid, Great American Game Company, Lookout Games, McLoughlin Brothers, Bevink Edities, Eurofranchising B.V., Selecta Spielzeug, Schmidt Spiele, Carl Werner, Adolf Sala, Kasco Mills, Kultquartett, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, M. Dittert & Co, Franz Schmidt, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Klipps Kaffee, Glücksklee, Noris Spiele, Cartamundi, Gustav Weise Verlag, Groneweg & Meintrup, Tactic, Humanus-Spiele, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, General Mills, Rudolf Forkel KG, Cincinnati Game Co., Mulder, G.M. Whipple, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Granna, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Russell Manufacturing Company, Piatnik, Peliko Oy, AMIGO, Walter Flechsig, Catullus, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Review and Herald Publishing, I.C.C. Product, Carlit, Parker Brothers, Volkswagen/Audi, Schwager & Steinlein, Whitman, Milton Bradley, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Spear's Games, (Public Domain), Sala, St. Briktius, Grimaud, Erhard Neubert KG, The United States Playing Card Company, Sage, Sons & Co., U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Wilder Manufacturing Co, Kaba
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Klemens Franz, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Erich Neubert, Werner Graichen, Richard Scarry, Traude Schlegel, Jürgen Kieser, Max Schaberschul, Uwe Rosenberg, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Hans de Beer, Liesel Lauterborn, Käthe Francke, Annemarie Gramberg, Virginijus Poshkus, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Harri Parschau, Ernst Stapelfeld, Arnold Zenkert, Hergé, Heinz Osthoff, Werner Ruhner, F. W. Martin Wolff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harry Baerg, Manfred Bofinger, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Barbara Henniger, Horst Schrader, Peyo, Delphine Durand, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peter Bauer, Hubert Lechner, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Richard Hambach, Erich Ohser, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Franz Kerka, M. Neugebauer, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Heinz Jankofsky, Janosch, Louis Rauwolf
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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Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Türkisch 8 ,
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American Women Authors ,
Vogelwelt ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
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Scientists ,
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Märchen-Quartett ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
White Squadron ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Big Valley ,
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Tierkinder ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Der Rhein ,
Yellowstone ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Explorers ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Astro Quartett ,
Grands Rois ,
Zitterbacke ,
Die Schweiz ,
Astronomy ,
Robinson ,
Tropical Fish ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Blühender Garten ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
The Author's Game ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Fairy Tales ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Sternbilder ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Merry Circus ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
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Märchen Quartett ,
Opern Quartett ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
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Schönes Deutschland ,
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Baseball Greats ,
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Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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Flower Families ,
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Holy Land ,
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Lassie Geheimnis ,
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Schweizer Heimat ,
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Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
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