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