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