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