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