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