The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Weltquartett, Richard Hauenstein, Catullus, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Whitman, Otto Maier Verlag, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, St. Briktius, I.C.C. Product, Glücksklee, Schmidt Spiele, Damm / Egmont, Bielefelder Spielkarten, J. Bünting & Co., Spear's Games, Noris Spiele, Groneweg & Meintrup, Parker Brothers, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Milton Bradley, F.X. Schmid, Kaba, Verlag Bing Werke AG, KOSMOS, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Peliko Oy, Warren Built Rite Games, National Game Company, General Mills, Eurofranchising B.V., Adolf Sala, Gustav Weise Verlag, Sage, Sons & Co., Volkswagen/Audi, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Erhard Neubert KG, Schüle-Hohenlohe, The United States Playing Card Company, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, ONKEL & ONKEL, Tactic, Klee, Mulder, Sala, Humanus-Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Piatnik, (Unknown), Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Review and Herald Publishing, Cartamundi, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Granna, Nathan, Rudolf Forkel KG, Cincinnati Game Co., Kultquartett, SchneiderBuch, Jos. Scholz, Franz Schmidt, Bevink Edities, Jumbo, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Carl Werner, Grimaud, Great American Game Company, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Carlit, M. Dittert & Co, McLoughlin Brothers, Walter Flechsig, Selecta Spel en Hobby, G.M. Whipple, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, AMIGO, Kasco Mills, Fireside Game Co., Selecta Spielzeug, (Public Domain), Lookout Games, Schwager & Steinlein, MIKA, Djeco, Multicolor, Russell Manufacturing Company
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Traude Schlegel, Klemens Franz, Hubert Lechner, Heinz Osthoff, Jürgen Kieser, Richard Scarry, Wilhelm Busch, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Heinz Jankofsky, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Barbara Henniger, Käthe Francke, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Louis Rauwolf, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Virginijus Poshkus, Uwe Rosenberg, Max Schaberschul, Peter Bauer, Arnold Zenkert, Fiep Westendorp, Hans de Beer, Harri Parschau, Peyo, Annemarie Gramberg, M. Neugebauer, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, Ernst Stapelfeld, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Hergé, Max Wulff, F. W. Martin Wolff, Rolf Kauka, Janosch, Manfred Bofinger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harry Baerg, Franz Kerka, Werner Graichen, Erich Ohser, Werner Ruhner, Erich Neubert, Liesel Lauterborn, Siegfried Riediger
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Weltquartett, Richard Hauenstein, Catullus, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Whitman, Otto Maier Verlag, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, St. Briktius, I.C.C. Product, Glücksklee, Schmidt Spiele, Damm / Egmont, Bielefelder Spielkarten, J. Bünting & Co., Spear's Games, Noris Spiele, Groneweg & Meintrup, Parker Brothers, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Milton Bradley, F.X. Schmid, Kaba, Verlag Bing Werke AG, KOSMOS, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Peliko Oy, Warren Built Rite Games, National Game Company, General Mills, Eurofranchising B.V., Adolf Sala, Gustav Weise Verlag, Sage, Sons & Co., Volkswagen/Audi, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Erhard Neubert KG, Schüle-Hohenlohe, The United States Playing Card Company, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, ONKEL & ONKEL, Tactic, Klee, Mulder, Sala, Humanus-Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Piatnik, (Unknown), Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Review and Herald Publishing, Cartamundi, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Granna, Nathan, Rudolf Forkel KG, Cincinnati Game Co., Kultquartett, SchneiderBuch, Jos. Scholz, Franz Schmidt, Bevink Edities, Jumbo, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Carl Werner, Grimaud, Great American Game Company, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Carlit, M. Dittert & Co, McLoughlin Brothers, Walter Flechsig, Selecta Spel en Hobby, G.M. Whipple, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, AMIGO, Kasco Mills, Fireside Game Co., Selecta Spielzeug, (Public Domain), Lookout Games, Schwager & Steinlein, MIKA, Djeco, Multicolor, Russell Manufacturing Company
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Traude Schlegel, Klemens Franz, Hubert Lechner, Heinz Osthoff, Jürgen Kieser, Richard Scarry, Wilhelm Busch, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Heinz Jankofsky, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Barbara Henniger, Käthe Francke, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Louis Rauwolf, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Virginijus Poshkus, Uwe Rosenberg, Max Schaberschul, Peter Bauer, Arnold Zenkert, Fiep Westendorp, Hans de Beer, Harri Parschau, Peyo, Annemarie Gramberg, M. Neugebauer, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, Ernst Stapelfeld, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Hergé, Max Wulff, F. W. Martin Wolff, Rolf Kauka, Janosch, Manfred Bofinger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harry Baerg, Franz Kerka, Werner Graichen, Erich Ohser, Werner Ruhner, Erich Neubert, Liesel Lauterborn, Siegfried Riediger
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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Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Fury ,
The Game of Authors ,
Mini Monster ,
Der Rhein ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
American Women Authors ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Tropical Fish ,
Deutsches Land ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
American Authors ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Quartett ,
Sternbilder ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Game of Flowers ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Tier Quartett ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Firkort ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Quartets ,
Grands Rois ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Scientists ,
Märchen ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Tierkinder ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Big Valley ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Unter Geiern ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
In Castle Land ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Baseball Greats ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
White Squadron ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Inventors ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Die Schweiz ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Tobias Taps ,
Citatenquartett ,
Flags ,
Explorers ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Allez-Hop! ,
The Author's Game ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
New Testament Game ,
Skippy ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Animal Quartett ,
Game of Strange People ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Game of Nations ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
In the White-House ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Game of Artists ,
Authors ,
Yellowstone ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Astro Quartett ,
Artists ,
Max und Moritz ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Märchenquartett ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Münchhausen ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Autograph Authors ,
Chats Katten ,
Astronomy ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Famous Authors ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Komponisten ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
The Lion King ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Pinocchio ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
The Great Composers ,
Blühender Garten ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Wickie ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Alpenblumen ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Kasco ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Holy Land ,
Durch den Harz ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Animal Quartette ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Authors Card Game ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Presidents ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Oldtimers II ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
In Castle-Land ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Children's Authors ,
Merry Circus ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Blumenquartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Bergwelt ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Inside the White House ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Famous Women ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Poems ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Don Quichote ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Flower Families ,
Grosswild ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
In the White House ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Shakespeare ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Kwartet ,
Vogelwelt ,
The Game of Cities ,
Zitterbacke ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Robinson ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Fairy Tales ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Baustile ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Führer Quartett ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Composers ,
Bonanza ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Das Heer ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Opern Quartett ,
So fängt es an... ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Im Märchenland ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Schwarzwald ,
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