The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Bevink Edities, Richard Hauenstein, Piatnik, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Parker Brothers, (Public Domain), Djeco, Kultquartett, Groneweg & Meintrup, Klipps Kaffee, St. Briktius, (Unknown), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Damm / Egmont, Klee, Erhard Neubert KG, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Spear's Games, Whitman, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, KOSMOS, AMIGO, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Bielefelder Spielkarten, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, F.X. Schmid, Jos. Scholz, Fireside Game Co., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Carl Werner, Rudolf Forkel KG, Multicolor, Tactic, Nathan, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Glücksklee, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, McLoughlin Brothers, Mulder, SchneiderBuch, Granna, Cincinnati Game Co., Eurofranchising B.V., Kaba, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Great American Game Company, G.M. Whipple, Selecta Spielzeug, Warren Built Rite Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, I.C.C. Product, Schmidt Spiele, Jumbo, Walter Flechsig, M. Dittert & Co, Humanus-Spiele, MIKA, Schwager & Steinlein, Catullus, General Mills, Lookout Games, The United States Playing Card Company, Review and Herald Publishing, Volkswagen/Audi, Weltquartett, J. Bünting & Co., Peliko Oy, Russell Manufacturing Company, Kasco Mills, Gustav Weise Verlag, Carlit, Cartamundi, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Noris Spiele, Grimaud, Franz Schmidt, Sage, Sons & Co., Adolf Sala, Sala, National Game Company, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, ONKEL & ONKEL, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Otto Maier Verlag, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Milton Bradley
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Delphine Durand, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Käthe Francke, Louis Rauwolf, Willy Müller-Gera, Klaus Vonderwerth, Franz Kerka, Janosch, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Arnold Zenkert, Richard Hambach, Hergé, Siegfried Riediger, Wilhelm Busch, Harri Parschau, Erich Ohser, Heinz Osthoff, Hans de Beer, Richard Scarry, Rolf Kauka, Barbara Henniger, Liesel Lauterborn, Werner Graichen, Heinz Jankofsky, Werner Ruhner, Hubert Lechner, Jürgen Kieser, M. Neugebauer, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Klemens Franz, Ernst Stapelfeld, Virginijus Poshkus, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Fiep Westendorp, Max Schaberschul, Manfred Bofinger, F. W. Martin Wolff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Erich Neubert, Traude Schlegel, Annemarie Gramberg, Horst Schrader, Peyo, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Erika Leo-Urban, Uwe Rosenberg, Harry Baerg
Mechanics: Hand Management, Memory, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Bevink Edities, Richard Hauenstein, Piatnik, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Parker Brothers, (Public Domain), Djeco, Kultquartett, Groneweg & Meintrup, Klipps Kaffee, St. Briktius, (Unknown), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Damm / Egmont, Klee, Erhard Neubert KG, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Spear's Games, Whitman, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, KOSMOS, AMIGO, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Bielefelder Spielkarten, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, F.X. Schmid, Jos. Scholz, Fireside Game Co., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Carl Werner, Rudolf Forkel KG, Multicolor, Tactic, Nathan, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Glücksklee, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, McLoughlin Brothers, Mulder, SchneiderBuch, Granna, Cincinnati Game Co., Eurofranchising B.V., Kaba, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Great American Game Company, G.M. Whipple, Selecta Spielzeug, Warren Built Rite Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, I.C.C. Product, Schmidt Spiele, Jumbo, Walter Flechsig, M. Dittert & Co, Humanus-Spiele, MIKA, Schwager & Steinlein, Catullus, General Mills, Lookout Games, The United States Playing Card Company, Review and Herald Publishing, Volkswagen/Audi, Weltquartett, J. Bünting & Co., Peliko Oy, Russell Manufacturing Company, Kasco Mills, Gustav Weise Verlag, Carlit, Cartamundi, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Noris Spiele, Grimaud, Franz Schmidt, Sage, Sons & Co., Adolf Sala, Sala, National Game Company, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, ONKEL & ONKEL, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Otto Maier Verlag, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Milton Bradley
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Delphine Durand, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Käthe Francke, Louis Rauwolf, Willy Müller-Gera, Klaus Vonderwerth, Franz Kerka, Janosch, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Arnold Zenkert, Richard Hambach, Hergé, Siegfried Riediger, Wilhelm Busch, Harri Parschau, Erich Ohser, Heinz Osthoff, Hans de Beer, Richard Scarry, Rolf Kauka, Barbara Henniger, Liesel Lauterborn, Werner Graichen, Heinz Jankofsky, Werner Ruhner, Hubert Lechner, Jürgen Kieser, M. Neugebauer, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Klemens Franz, Ernst Stapelfeld, Virginijus Poshkus, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Fiep Westendorp, Max Schaberschul, Manfred Bofinger, F. W. Martin Wolff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Erich Neubert, Traude Schlegel, Annemarie Gramberg, Horst Schrader, Peyo, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Erika Leo-Urban, Uwe Rosenberg, Harry Baerg
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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Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
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Vater und Sohn ,
Axel und die Autos ,
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Game of Artists ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
New Testament Game ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
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Trees and Flowers ,
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Kasco ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Führer Quartett ,
Bergwelt ,
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Animal Quartett ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
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Whitman 4497 ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
In Castle-Land ,
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Thierry le Fronde ,
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Les Grands Hommes de France ,
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Flags ,
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