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