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