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