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