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