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