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