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