The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Tactic, Milton Bradley, Carlit, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Groneweg & Meintrup, Rudolf Forkel KG, Gustav Weise Verlag, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schwager & Steinlein, G.M. Whipple, Damm / Egmont, Humanus-Spiele, Jumbo, Glücksklee, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Djeco, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Carl Werner, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Weltquartett, Adolf Sala, MIKA, J. Bünting & Co., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, General Mills, Volkswagen/Audi, Klipps Kaffee, SchneiderBuch, Eurofranchising B.V., Erhard Neubert KG, Schmidt Spiele, Lookout Games, Walter Flechsig, M. Dittert & Co, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, (Public Domain), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Kasco Mills, Cartamundi, Mulder, Jos. Scholz, Richard Hauenstein, Warren Built Rite Games, Parker Brothers, Sala, Nathan, Review and Herald Publishing, Spear's Games, Whitman, Noris Spiele, Sage, Sons & Co., E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Selecta Spielzeug, F.X. Schmid, Grimaud, Bielefelder Spielkarten, St. Briktius, AMIGO, I.C.C. Product, Peliko Oy, Piatnik, National Game Company, (Unknown), Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, McLoughlin Brothers, Franz Schmidt, Russell Manufacturing Company, Otto Maier Verlag, Kultquartett, Granna, KOSMOS, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, Multicolor, Cincinnati Game Co., ONKEL & ONKEL, Klee, The United States Playing Card Company, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Fireside Game Co., Great American Game Company, Kaba, Catullus
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Käthe Francke, Franz Kerka, Hergé, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hubert Lechner, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Erich Neubert, Harri Parschau, Barbara Henniger, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Peyo, Ernst Stapelfeld, Horst Schrader, Erich Ohser, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Annemarie Gramberg, F. W. Martin Wolff, Virginijus Poshkus, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Richard Scarry, Heinz Jankofsky, Louis Rauwolf, Wilhelm Busch, Richard Hambach, Max Schaberschul, Rolf Kauka, Heinz Osthoff, Delphine Durand, Erika Leo-Urban, M. Neugebauer, Arnold Zenkert, Harry Baerg, Siegfried Riediger, Traude Schlegel, Uwe Rosenberg, Klemens Franz, Janosch, Jürgen Kieser, Fiep Westendorp, Peter Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Hans de Beer, Manfred Bofinger, Liesel Lauterborn
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Tactic, Milton Bradley, Carlit, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Groneweg & Meintrup, Rudolf Forkel KG, Gustav Weise Verlag, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schwager & Steinlein, G.M. Whipple, Damm / Egmont, Humanus-Spiele, Jumbo, Glücksklee, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Djeco, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Carl Werner, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Weltquartett, Adolf Sala, MIKA, J. Bünting & Co., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, General Mills, Volkswagen/Audi, Klipps Kaffee, SchneiderBuch, Eurofranchising B.V., Erhard Neubert KG, Schmidt Spiele, Lookout Games, Walter Flechsig, M. Dittert & Co, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, (Public Domain), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Kasco Mills, Cartamundi, Mulder, Jos. Scholz, Richard Hauenstein, Warren Built Rite Games, Parker Brothers, Sala, Nathan, Review and Herald Publishing, Spear's Games, Whitman, Noris Spiele, Sage, Sons & Co., E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Selecta Spielzeug, F.X. Schmid, Grimaud, Bielefelder Spielkarten, St. Briktius, AMIGO, I.C.C. Product, Peliko Oy, Piatnik, National Game Company, (Unknown), Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, McLoughlin Brothers, Franz Schmidt, Russell Manufacturing Company, Otto Maier Verlag, Kultquartett, Granna, KOSMOS, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, Multicolor, Cincinnati Game Co., ONKEL & ONKEL, Klee, The United States Playing Card Company, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Fireside Game Co., Great American Game Company, Kaba, Catullus
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Käthe Francke, Franz Kerka, Hergé, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hubert Lechner, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Erich Neubert, Harri Parschau, Barbara Henniger, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Peyo, Ernst Stapelfeld, Horst Schrader, Erich Ohser, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Annemarie Gramberg, F. W. Martin Wolff, Virginijus Poshkus, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Richard Scarry, Heinz Jankofsky, Louis Rauwolf, Wilhelm Busch, Richard Hambach, Max Schaberschul, Rolf Kauka, Heinz Osthoff, Delphine Durand, Erika Leo-Urban, M. Neugebauer, Arnold Zenkert, Harry Baerg, Siegfried Riediger, Traude Schlegel, Uwe Rosenberg, Klemens Franz, Janosch, Jürgen Kieser, Fiep Westendorp, Peter Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Hans de Beer, Manfred Bofinger, Liesel Lauterborn
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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Fussball Quartett ,
Zoo Quartett ,
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Grands Rois ,
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Fairy Tales ,
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The National Game of Public Men ,
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Elefanten Boy ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
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Vater und Sohn ,
American Authors ,
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Neue's Componisten ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Oldtimers II ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
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Das Knetemännlein ,
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Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
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Whitman 4497 ,
Fury ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
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Mini Monster ,
Don Quichote ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
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Great Women: Foremothers ,
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