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