The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Jumbo, Carl Werner, Glücksklee, Noris Spiele, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Granna, M. Dittert & Co, St. Briktius, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Warren Built Rite Games, Nathan, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Walter Flechsig, Mulder, Adolf Sala, AMIGO, Schmidt Spiele, Franz Schmidt, Klee, G.M. Whipple, Bielefelder Spielkarten, MIKA, National Game Company, F.X. Schmid, Volkswagen/Audi, Erhard Neubert KG, Gustav Weise Verlag, General Mills, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Sala, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, The United States Playing Card Company, Kasco Mills, J. Bünting & Co., Jos. Scholz, Cartamundi, Kaba, Sage, Sons & Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Parker Brothers, Humanus-Spiele, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Lookout Games, ONKEL & ONKEL, Multicolor, Kultquartett, I.C.C. Product, Spear's Games, Piatnik, Milton Bradley, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Grimaud, Tactic, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Cincinnati Game Co., Klipps Kaffee, Groneweg & Meintrup, Selecta Spielzeug, SchneiderBuch, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Carlit, Otto Maier Verlag, Catullus, Djeco, McLoughlin Brothers, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schwager & Steinlein, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Great American Game Company, Richard Hauenstein, KOSMOS, (Public Domain), Selecta Spel en Hobby, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Review and Herald Publishing, Weltquartett, Bevink Edities, Whitman, Eurofranchising B.V., Damm / Egmont, Rudolf Forkel KG, Fireside Game Co., (Unknown), Peliko Oy
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Werner Graichen, Jürgen Kieser, M. Neugebauer, Barbara Henniger, Max Wulff, W Wilhelmsmeyer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Louis Rauwolf, Klaus Vonderwerth, Virginijus Poshkus, Hans de Beer, Käthe Francke, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Horst Schrader, Hubert Lechner, Ernst Stapelfeld, Uwe Rosenberg, Rolf Kauka, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Erich Ohser, Traude Schlegel, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Osthoff, Max Schaberschul, Werner Ruhner, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Annemarie Gramberg, Harri Parschau, Manfred Bofinger, Janosch, Peter Bauer, Richard Scarry, Arnold Zenkert, Wilhelm Busch, Erich Neubert, Anne Erler-Reichold, Siegfried Riediger, Hergé, Franz Kerka, Harry Baerg, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Fiep Westendorp, Peyo, Heinz Jankofsky
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Jumbo, Carl Werner, Glücksklee, Noris Spiele, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Granna, M. Dittert & Co, St. Briktius, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Warren Built Rite Games, Nathan, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Walter Flechsig, Mulder, Adolf Sala, AMIGO, Schmidt Spiele, Franz Schmidt, Klee, G.M. Whipple, Bielefelder Spielkarten, MIKA, National Game Company, F.X. Schmid, Volkswagen/Audi, Erhard Neubert KG, Gustav Weise Verlag, General Mills, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Sala, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, The United States Playing Card Company, Kasco Mills, J. Bünting & Co., Jos. Scholz, Cartamundi, Kaba, Sage, Sons & Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Parker Brothers, Humanus-Spiele, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Lookout Games, ONKEL & ONKEL, Multicolor, Kultquartett, I.C.C. Product, Spear's Games, Piatnik, Milton Bradley, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Grimaud, Tactic, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Cincinnati Game Co., Klipps Kaffee, Groneweg & Meintrup, Selecta Spielzeug, SchneiderBuch, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Carlit, Otto Maier Verlag, Catullus, Djeco, McLoughlin Brothers, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schwager & Steinlein, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Great American Game Company, Richard Hauenstein, KOSMOS, (Public Domain), Selecta Spel en Hobby, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Review and Herald Publishing, Weltquartett, Bevink Edities, Whitman, Eurofranchising B.V., Damm / Egmont, Rudolf Forkel KG, Fireside Game Co., (Unknown), Peliko Oy
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Werner Graichen, Jürgen Kieser, M. Neugebauer, Barbara Henniger, Max Wulff, W Wilhelmsmeyer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Louis Rauwolf, Klaus Vonderwerth, Virginijus Poshkus, Hans de Beer, Käthe Francke, Willy Müller-Gera, Erika Leo-Urban, Horst Schrader, Hubert Lechner, Ernst Stapelfeld, Uwe Rosenberg, Rolf Kauka, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Erich Ohser, Traude Schlegel, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Osthoff, Max Schaberschul, Werner Ruhner, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Annemarie Gramberg, Harri Parschau, Manfred Bofinger, Janosch, Peter Bauer, Richard Scarry, Arnold Zenkert, Wilhelm Busch, Erich Neubert, Anne Erler-Reichold, Siegfried Riediger, Hergé, Franz Kerka, Harry Baerg, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Fiep Westendorp, Peyo, Heinz Jankofsky
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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Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Autograph Authors ,
The Game of Cities ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Big Valley ,
Die Schweiz ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Deutsches Land ,
Führer Quartett ,
Vogelwelt ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Children's Authors ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Presidents ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Das Heer ,
In the White-House ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Yellowstone ,
Blumen Quartett ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Authors ,
Game of Artists ,
The Great Composers ,
Baustile ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Kasco ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Robinson ,
Oldtimers II ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Kwartet ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
The Author's Game ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Shakespeare ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Grosswild ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Blumenquartett ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Astro Quartett ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Märchenquartett ,
Famous Women ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
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Im Märchenland ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Grands Rois ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
In Castle-Land ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Tobias Taps ,
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Tyrannen Quartett ,
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Fipps der Affe ,
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Tier Quartett ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Poems ,
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Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Chats Katten ,
Game of Nations ,
Merry Circus ,
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Unter Geiern ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
The Lion King ,
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Wickie ,
Pinocchio ,
Holy Land ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
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Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
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Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
American Women Authors ,
Flags ,
Skippy ,
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Deutschlands große Söhne ,
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Sport-Quartett ,
New Testament Game ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
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Flags of the Civil War ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
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Blumen-Quartett ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
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Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
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Animal Quartette ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
In Castle Land ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Authors Card Game ,
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Opern Quartett ,
Inventors ,
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Donald im Zirkus ,
Neue's Componisten ,
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