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