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