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