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