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