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