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