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