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