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