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