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