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