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