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