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