The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Merrimack Publishing Corp., Damm / Egmont, Gustav Weise Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Groneweg & Meintrup, KOSMOS, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Spear's Games, Jumbo, (Public Domain), Verlag Bing Werke AG, F.X. Schmid, National Game Company, Klee, Wilder Manufacturing Co, ONKEL & ONKEL, (Unknown), Klipps Kaffee, Franz Schmidt, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Walter Flechsig, AMIGO, Richard Hauenstein, Schwager & Steinlein, Granna, Nathan, J. Bünting & Co., Bielefelder Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, SchneiderBuch, Kultquartett, Humanus-Spiele, Cincinnati Game Co., Warren Built Rite Games, Fireside Game Co., Catullus, I.C.C. Product, Great American Game Company, Kaba, The United States Playing Card Company, General Mills, G.M. Whipple, Glücksklee, Djeco, Volkswagen/Audi, Mulder, Sala, Schmidt Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Grimaud, Eurofranchising B.V., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Cartamundi, Sage, Sons & Co., Otto Maier Verlag, MIKA, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Whitman, McLoughlin Brothers, Erhard Neubert KG, Piatnik, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, St. Briktius, Peliko Oy, Russell Manufacturing Company, Tactic, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Noris Spiele, Kasco Mills, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Weltquartett, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Milton Bradley, Selecta Spielzeug, Carl Werner, Adolf Sala, Review and Herald Publishing, Carlit, Parker Brothers, Lookout Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Rudolf Forkel KG, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Multicolor, Schüle-Hohenlohe, U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Annemarie Gramberg, Manfred Bofinger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Erich Neubert, Rolf Kauka, Fiep Westendorp, Richard Scarry, Liesel Lauterborn, Ernst Stapelfeld, Arnold Zenkert, Käthe Francke, Janosch, Anne Erler-Reichold, Heinz Jankofsky, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Klemens Franz, Werner Ruhner, Max Schaberschul, Richard Hambach, Uwe Rosenberg, Wilhelm Busch, Max Wulff, Harry Baerg, Harri Parschau, Werner Graichen, Barbara Henniger, Peyo, Peter Bauer, M. Neugebauer, Heinz Osthoff, Louis Rauwolf, Traude Schlegel, Jürgen Kieser, Hans de Beer, Franz Kerka, Erich Ohser, Hubert Lechner, F. W. Martin Wolff, Erika Leo-Urban, Virginijus Poshkus, Horst Schrader, Hergé, Willy Müller-Gera, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Siegfried Riediger
Mechanics: Memory, Set Collection, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Merrimack Publishing Corp., Damm / Egmont, Gustav Weise Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Groneweg & Meintrup, KOSMOS, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Spear's Games, Jumbo, (Public Domain), Verlag Bing Werke AG, F.X. Schmid, National Game Company, Klee, Wilder Manufacturing Co, ONKEL & ONKEL, (Unknown), Klipps Kaffee, Franz Schmidt, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Walter Flechsig, AMIGO, Richard Hauenstein, Schwager & Steinlein, Granna, Nathan, J. Bünting & Co., Bielefelder Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, SchneiderBuch, Kultquartett, Humanus-Spiele, Cincinnati Game Co., Warren Built Rite Games, Fireside Game Co., Catullus, I.C.C. Product, Great American Game Company, Kaba, The United States Playing Card Company, General Mills, G.M. Whipple, Glücksklee, Djeco, Volkswagen/Audi, Mulder, Sala, Schmidt Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Grimaud, Eurofranchising B.V., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Cartamundi, Sage, Sons & Co., Otto Maier Verlag, MIKA, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Whitman, McLoughlin Brothers, Erhard Neubert KG, Piatnik, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, St. Briktius, Peliko Oy, Russell Manufacturing Company, Tactic, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Noris Spiele, Kasco Mills, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Weltquartett, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Milton Bradley, Selecta Spielzeug, Carl Werner, Adolf Sala, Review and Herald Publishing, Carlit, Parker Brothers, Lookout Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Rudolf Forkel KG, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Multicolor, Schüle-Hohenlohe, U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Annemarie Gramberg, Manfred Bofinger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Erich Neubert, Rolf Kauka, Fiep Westendorp, Richard Scarry, Liesel Lauterborn, Ernst Stapelfeld, Arnold Zenkert, Käthe Francke, Janosch, Anne Erler-Reichold, Heinz Jankofsky, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Klemens Franz, Werner Ruhner, Max Schaberschul, Richard Hambach, Uwe Rosenberg, Wilhelm Busch, Max Wulff, Harry Baerg, Harri Parschau, Werner Graichen, Barbara Henniger, Peyo, Peter Bauer, M. Neugebauer, Heinz Osthoff, Louis Rauwolf, Traude Schlegel, Jürgen Kieser, Hans de Beer, Franz Kerka, Erich Ohser, Hubert Lechner, F. W. Martin Wolff, Erika Leo-Urban, Virginijus Poshkus, Horst Schrader, Hergé, Willy Müller-Gera, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Siegfried Riediger
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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The game was also published under these names:
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Game of Flowers ,
Münchhausen ,
Der Rhein ,
Baseball Greats ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Bergwelt ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Opern Quartett ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Führer Quartett ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
In the White House ,
Tierkinder ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Animal Quartette ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Blumenquartett ,
In Castle-Land ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Children's Authors ,
Märchen Quartett ,
American Authors ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Inventors ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Oldtimers II ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Quartets ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Zitterbacke ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Unter Geiern ,
Skippy ,
Astro Quartett ,
Grands Rois ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Tobias Taps ,
Wickie ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Durch den Harz ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Astronomy ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Mini Monster ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Agricola Quartett ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Authors Card Game ,
Die Schweiz ,
Poems ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Baustile ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Big Valley ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Don Quichote ,
Football Greats ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Allez-Hop! ,
White Squadron ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Citatenquartett ,
Famous Authors ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Tom Sawyer ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Autograph Authors ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Sternbilder ,
The Lion King ,
Blühender Garten ,
Märchenquartett ,
Im Märchenland ,
Firkort ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
American Women Authors ,
Robinson ,
Bonanza ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Shakespeare ,
Scientists ,
Composers ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
In the White-House ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Fury ,
Holy Land ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Flower Families ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Quartett ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Authors ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Explorers ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Inside the White House ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Game of Nations ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Tier Quartett ,
Presidents ,
Chats Katten ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
In Castle Land ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Axel und die Autos ,
The Great Composers ,
Artists ,
Flags ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
The Game of Authors ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Fairy Tales ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Komponisten ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
So fängt es an... ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Famous Women ,
Kasco ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Tropical Fish ,
Animal Quartett ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
New Testament Game ,
Schönes Österreich ,
The Game of Cities ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Schwarzwald ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Grosswild ,
Alpenblumen ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Deutsches Land ,
Kwartet ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Märchen ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
The Author's Game ,
Das Heer ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Game of Strange People ,
Yellowstone ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Pinocchio ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Max und Moritz ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Vogelwelt ,
Merry Circus ,
Game of Artists
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