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