The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Review and Herald Publishing, Tactic, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Schmidt Spiele, Schwager & Steinlein, ONKEL & ONKEL, (Public Domain), Bevink Edities, Catullus, St. Briktius, McLoughlin Brothers, Adolf Sala, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Klee, Selecta Spielzeug, Groneweg & Meintrup, Kasco Mills, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, F.X. Schmid, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Milton Bradley, The United States Playing Card Company, M. Dittert & Co, Fireside Game Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Weltquartett, SchneiderBuch, Kultquartett, Glücksklee, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Rudolf Forkel KG, Noris Spiele, Multicolor, AMIGO, Grimaud, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Jos. Scholz, Otto Maier Verlag, Nathan, KOSMOS, Carl Werner, (Unknown), J. Bünting & Co., MIKA, Humanus-Spiele, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Granna, Walter Flechsig, Peliko Oy, Sala, Kaba, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Gustav Weise Verlag, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Whitman, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, General Mills, Franz Schmidt, Warren Built Rite Games, Mulder, Klipps Kaffee, Sage, Sons & Co., Parker Brothers, Cartamundi, Damm / Egmont, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Cincinnati Game Co., Carlit, Great American Game Company, Piatnik, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Volkswagen/Audi, Spear's Games, Djeco, Erhard Neubert KG, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Eurofranchising B.V., Richard Hauenstein, Lookout Games, Bielefelder Spielkarten, G.M. Whipple, National Game Company, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, I.C.C. Product, Jumbo
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Richard Hambach, Barbara Henniger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Erich Neubert, Louis Rauwolf, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hubert Lechner, Peter Bauer, Siegfried Riediger, Virginijus Poshkus, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Max Schaberschul, Wilhelm Busch, Heinz Jankofsky, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Werner Ruhner, Rolf Kauka, Janosch, Ernst Stapelfeld, Annemarie Gramberg, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Arnold Zenkert, Delphine Durand, Werner Graichen, Harry Baerg, Erika Leo-Urban, M. Neugebauer, Uwe Rosenberg, Harri Parschau, Manfred Bofinger, Franz Kerka, Hans de Beer, Fiep Westendorp, Heinz Osthoff, Hergé, Willy Müller-Gera, Richard Scarry, Käthe Francke, Horst Schrader, Erich Ohser, F. W. Martin Wolff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Max Wulff, Jürgen Kieser, Traude Schlegel, Peyo
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Review and Herald Publishing, Tactic, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Schmidt Spiele, Schwager & Steinlein, ONKEL & ONKEL, (Public Domain), Bevink Edities, Catullus, St. Briktius, McLoughlin Brothers, Adolf Sala, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Klee, Selecta Spielzeug, Groneweg & Meintrup, Kasco Mills, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, F.X. Schmid, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Milton Bradley, The United States Playing Card Company, M. Dittert & Co, Fireside Game Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Weltquartett, SchneiderBuch, Kultquartett, Glücksklee, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Rudolf Forkel KG, Noris Spiele, Multicolor, AMIGO, Grimaud, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Jos. Scholz, Otto Maier Verlag, Nathan, KOSMOS, Carl Werner, (Unknown), J. Bünting & Co., MIKA, Humanus-Spiele, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Granna, Walter Flechsig, Peliko Oy, Sala, Kaba, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Gustav Weise Verlag, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Whitman, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, General Mills, Franz Schmidt, Warren Built Rite Games, Mulder, Klipps Kaffee, Sage, Sons & Co., Parker Brothers, Cartamundi, Damm / Egmont, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Cincinnati Game Co., Carlit, Great American Game Company, Piatnik, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Volkswagen/Audi, Spear's Games, Djeco, Erhard Neubert KG, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Eurofranchising B.V., Richard Hauenstein, Lookout Games, Bielefelder Spielkarten, G.M. Whipple, National Game Company, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, I.C.C. Product, Jumbo
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Richard Hambach, Barbara Henniger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Erich Neubert, Louis Rauwolf, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hubert Lechner, Peter Bauer, Siegfried Riediger, Virginijus Poshkus, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Max Schaberschul, Wilhelm Busch, Heinz Jankofsky, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Werner Ruhner, Rolf Kauka, Janosch, Ernst Stapelfeld, Annemarie Gramberg, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Arnold Zenkert, Delphine Durand, Werner Graichen, Harry Baerg, Erika Leo-Urban, M. Neugebauer, Uwe Rosenberg, Harri Parschau, Manfred Bofinger, Franz Kerka, Hans de Beer, Fiep Westendorp, Heinz Osthoff, Hergé, Willy Müller-Gera, Richard Scarry, Käthe Francke, Horst Schrader, Erich Ohser, F. W. Martin Wolff, Anne Erler-Reichold, Max Wulff, Jürgen Kieser, Traude Schlegel, Peyo
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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Bünte Vogelwelt ,
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Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Bonanza ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Märchenquartett ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
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Fix & Foxi ,
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Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
American Women Authors ,
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In Castle Land ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Baustile ,
Animal Quartett ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
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Deutsche Märchen ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Whitman 4497 ,
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Seuchen Quartett ,
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Explorers ,
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The Great Composers ,
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Deutsches Land ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Tom Sawyer ,
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Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Kwartet ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Münchhausen ,
The Game of Authors ,
American Authors ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
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Mini Monster ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
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Schwarzwald ,
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Ghostbusters Quartett ,
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Don Quichote ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Inventors ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
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Das Knetemännlein ,
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