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