The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Franz Schmidt, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, National Game Company, SchneiderBuch, Whitman, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Warren Built Rite Games, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Schmidt Spiele, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Humanus-Spiele, Nathan, Parker Brothers, Klipps Kaffee, KOSMOS, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Djeco, General Mills, Jos. Scholz, Grimaud, Carlit, Rudolf Forkel KG, Richard Hauenstein, Erhard Neubert KG, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Granna, The United States Playing Card Company, Kaba, Glücksklee, Peliko Oy, MIKA, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Review and Herald Publishing, ONKEL & ONKEL, Catullus, Milton Bradley, Sala, Bevink Edities, Carl Werner, Lookout Games, Walter Flechsig, Great American Game Company, I.C.C. Product, G.M. Whipple, St. Briktius, Noris Spiele, Damm / Egmont, Spear's Games, Cartamundi, Russell Manufacturing Company, Multicolor, Cincinnati Game Co., F.X. Schmid, Sage, Sons & Co., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Klee, Tactic, J. Bünting & Co., (Public Domain), Adolf Sala, Kultquartett, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Selecta Spielzeug, AMIGO, Mulder, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Piatnik, Jumbo, Gustav Weise Verlag, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Weltquartett, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Schwager & Steinlein, Otto Maier Verlag, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schüle-Hohenlohe, McLoughlin Brothers, Groneweg & Meintrup, M. Dittert & Co, Eurofranchising B.V., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Fireside Game Co.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Uwe Rosenberg, Siegfried Riediger, Manfred Bofinger, Jürgen Kieser, Erich Ohser, Klaus Vonderwerth, Virginijus Poshkus, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Werner Graichen, Hergé, Barbara Henniger, Traude Schlegel, M. Neugebauer, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Käthe Francke, Willy Müller-Gera, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, F. W. Martin Wolff, Rolf Kauka, Harry Baerg, Hubert Lechner, Richard Hambach, Anne Erler-Reichold, Erika Leo-Urban, Arnold Zenkert, Max Wulff, Annemarie Gramberg, Horst Schrader, Louis Rauwolf, Werner Ruhner, Hans de Beer, Janosch, Max Schaberschul, Delphine Durand, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Wilhelm Busch, Peyo, Richard Scarry, Franz Kerka, Peter Bauer, Erich Neubert, Ernst Stapelfeld, Heinz Jankofsky, Fiep Westendorp, Harri Parschau, Heinz Osthoff
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Franz Schmidt, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, National Game Company, SchneiderBuch, Whitman, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Warren Built Rite Games, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Schmidt Spiele, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Humanus-Spiele, Nathan, Parker Brothers, Klipps Kaffee, KOSMOS, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Djeco, General Mills, Jos. Scholz, Grimaud, Carlit, Rudolf Forkel KG, Richard Hauenstein, Erhard Neubert KG, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Granna, The United States Playing Card Company, Kaba, Glücksklee, Peliko Oy, MIKA, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Review and Herald Publishing, ONKEL & ONKEL, Catullus, Milton Bradley, Sala, Bevink Edities, Carl Werner, Lookout Games, Walter Flechsig, Great American Game Company, I.C.C. Product, G.M. Whipple, St. Briktius, Noris Spiele, Damm / Egmont, Spear's Games, Cartamundi, Russell Manufacturing Company, Multicolor, Cincinnati Game Co., F.X. Schmid, Sage, Sons & Co., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Klee, Tactic, J. Bünting & Co., (Public Domain), Adolf Sala, Kultquartett, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Selecta Spielzeug, AMIGO, Mulder, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Piatnik, Jumbo, Gustav Weise Verlag, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Weltquartett, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Schwager & Steinlein, Otto Maier Verlag, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schüle-Hohenlohe, McLoughlin Brothers, Groneweg & Meintrup, M. Dittert & Co, Eurofranchising B.V., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Fireside Game Co.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Uwe Rosenberg, Siegfried Riediger, Manfred Bofinger, Jürgen Kieser, Erich Ohser, Klaus Vonderwerth, Virginijus Poshkus, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Werner Graichen, Hergé, Barbara Henniger, Traude Schlegel, M. Neugebauer, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Käthe Francke, Willy Müller-Gera, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, F. W. Martin Wolff, Rolf Kauka, Harry Baerg, Hubert Lechner, Richard Hambach, Anne Erler-Reichold, Erika Leo-Urban, Arnold Zenkert, Max Wulff, Annemarie Gramberg, Horst Schrader, Louis Rauwolf, Werner Ruhner, Hans de Beer, Janosch, Max Schaberschul, Delphine Durand, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Wilhelm Busch, Peyo, Richard Scarry, Franz Kerka, Peter Bauer, Erich Neubert, Ernst Stapelfeld, Heinz Jankofsky, Fiep Westendorp, Harri Parschau, Heinz Osthoff
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, 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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7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Explorers ,
Der Rhein ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Kasco ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Münchhausen ,
Bonanza ,
Märchenquartett ,
Tierkinder ,
Football Greats ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Scientists ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Animal Quartett ,
Tobias Taps ,
Alpenblumen ,
American Authors ,
Don Quichote ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Fairy Tales ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Grosswild ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Vogelwelt ,
Schwarzwald ,
Merry Circus ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Oldtimers II ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Astro Quartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Game of Strange People ,
Inside the White House ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Grands Rois ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Opern Quartett ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Quartett ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Game of Flowers ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Citatenquartett ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Skippy ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Baustile ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Elefanten Boy ,
In Castle Land ,
Astronomy ,
Shakespeare ,
Im Märchenland ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Blühender Garten ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Komponisten ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Poems ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Märchen ,
The Lion King ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
American Women Authors ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
The Great Composers ,
Quartets ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Fipps der Affe ,
In the White House ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Big Valley ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Game of Nations ,
Sternbilder ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Bergwelt ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Zitterbacke ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Game of Artists ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Authors ,
Inventors ,
Pinocchio ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Artists ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Famous Authors ,
Composers ,
Max und Moritz ,
Tropical Fish ,
Blumenquartett ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Flower Families ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
The Game of Authors ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Märchen Quartett ,
In the White-House ,
Kwartet ,
Authors Card Game ,
Famous Women ,
Animal Quartette ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Wickie ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Tier Quartett ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Yellowstone ,
New Testament Game ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Children's Authors ,
Durch den Harz ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Presidents ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Die Schweiz ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Führer Quartett ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
White Squadron ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Chats Katten ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Mini Monster ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Holy Land ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Robinson ,
Deutsches Land ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Baseball Greats ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
The Author's Game ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
The Game of Cities ,
Unter Geiern ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Flags ,
In Castle-Land ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Fury ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
So fängt es an... ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Firkort ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Das Heer ,
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