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