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