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