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