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