The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Bevink Edities, Nathan, MIKA, Groneweg & Meintrup, AMIGO, Jumbo, Humanus-Spiele, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Walter Flechsig, Piatnik, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Tactic, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, I.C.C. Product, Jos. Scholz, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Klipps Kaffee, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Otto Maier Verlag, SchneiderBuch, F.X. Schmid, Milton Bradley, Schmidt Spiele, ONKEL & ONKEL, Noris Spiele, The United States Playing Card Company, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Peliko Oy, M. Dittert & Co, Klee, Kultquartett, Whitman, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Schwager & Steinlein, Lookout Games, Rudolf Forkel KG, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Review and Herald Publishing, G.M. Whipple, Fireside Game Co., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Damm / Egmont, Mulder, Selecta Spielzeug, Russell Manufacturing Company, Eurofranchising B.V., Adolf Sala, Grimaud, Warren Built Rite Games, Richard Hauenstein, National Game Company, Bielefelder Spielkarten, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Parker Brothers, Kaba, General Mills, Franz Schmidt, Cartamundi, Carlit, Catullus, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Gustav Weise Verlag, St. Briktius, Sala, Glücksklee, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, McLoughlin Brothers, Djeco, Erhard Neubert KG, J. Bünting & Co., Spear's Games, (Public Domain), Cincinnati Game Co., Great American Game Company, Multicolor, Carl Werner, KOSMOS, Volkswagen/Audi, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Granna, Weltquartett, Sage, Sons & Co., Merrimack Publishing Corp., VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Louis Rauwolf, Anne Erler-Reichold, Liesel Lauterborn, Willy Müller-Gera, Klemens Franz, Peyo, Heinz Osthoff, Wilhelm Busch, Virginijus Poshkus, Max Schaberschul, Harri Parschau, Siegfried Riediger, Werner Graichen, Max Wulff, Rolf Kauka, Jürgen Kieser, F. W. Martin Wolff, M. Neugebauer, Janosch, Ernst Stapelfeld, Richard Hambach, Horst Schrader, Barbara Henniger, Harry Baerg, Werner Ruhner, Fiep Westendorp, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Uwe Rosenberg, Heinz Jankofsky, Annemarie Gramberg, Richard Scarry, Erich Neubert, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Traude Schlegel, Franz Kerka, Hubert Lechner, Erika Leo-Urban, Hans de Beer, Klaus Vonderwerth, Arnold Zenkert, Hergé, Delphine Durand, Peter Bauer, Manfred Bofinger, Käthe Francke, Erich Ohser
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Bevink Edities, Nathan, MIKA, Groneweg & Meintrup, AMIGO, Jumbo, Humanus-Spiele, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Walter Flechsig, Piatnik, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Tactic, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, I.C.C. Product, Jos. Scholz, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Klipps Kaffee, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Otto Maier Verlag, SchneiderBuch, F.X. Schmid, Milton Bradley, Schmidt Spiele, ONKEL & ONKEL, Noris Spiele, The United States Playing Card Company, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Peliko Oy, M. Dittert & Co, Klee, Kultquartett, Whitman, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Schwager & Steinlein, Lookout Games, Rudolf Forkel KG, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Review and Herald Publishing, G.M. Whipple, Fireside Game Co., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Damm / Egmont, Mulder, Selecta Spielzeug, Russell Manufacturing Company, Eurofranchising B.V., Adolf Sala, Grimaud, Warren Built Rite Games, Richard Hauenstein, National Game Company, Bielefelder Spielkarten, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Parker Brothers, Kaba, General Mills, Franz Schmidt, Cartamundi, Carlit, Catullus, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Gustav Weise Verlag, St. Briktius, Sala, Glücksklee, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, McLoughlin Brothers, Djeco, Erhard Neubert KG, J. Bünting & Co., Spear's Games, (Public Domain), Cincinnati Game Co., Great American Game Company, Multicolor, Carl Werner, KOSMOS, Volkswagen/Audi, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Granna, Weltquartett, Sage, Sons & Co., Merrimack Publishing Corp., VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Louis Rauwolf, Anne Erler-Reichold, Liesel Lauterborn, Willy Müller-Gera, Klemens Franz, Peyo, Heinz Osthoff, Wilhelm Busch, Virginijus Poshkus, Max Schaberschul, Harri Parschau, Siegfried Riediger, Werner Graichen, Max Wulff, Rolf Kauka, Jürgen Kieser, F. W. Martin Wolff, M. Neugebauer, Janosch, Ernst Stapelfeld, Richard Hambach, Horst Schrader, Barbara Henniger, Harry Baerg, Werner Ruhner, Fiep Westendorp, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Uwe Rosenberg, Heinz Jankofsky, Annemarie Gramberg, Richard Scarry, Erich Neubert, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Traude Schlegel, Franz Kerka, Hubert Lechner, Erika Leo-Urban, Hans de Beer, Klaus Vonderwerth, Arnold Zenkert, Hergé, Delphine Durand, Peter Bauer, Manfred Bofinger, Käthe Francke, Erich Ohser
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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Reuzenkwartet ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Der Rhein ,
Bergwelt ,
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Illustrated Mythology ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
In the White House ,
The Game of Cities ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Firkort ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
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Tobias Taps ,
American Authors ,
In Castle Land ,
The Game of Authors ,
Inside the White House ,
Alpenblumen ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Flags ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Die Schweiz ,
Famous Women ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Animal Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Märchen ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
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New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Wickie ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
In Castle-Land ,
Grosswild ,
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Composers ,
Game of Nations ,
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Zitterbacke ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
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Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
New Testament Game ,
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Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
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Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
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Jasper Quartett ,
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Chats Katten ,
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Scientists ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Autograph Authors ,
Kasco ,
Unter Geiern ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
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Fipps der Affe ,
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Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Yellowstone ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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Münchhausen ,
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