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