The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: McLoughlin Brothers, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Eurofranchising B.V., Cartamundi, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Schmidt Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Warren Built Rite Games, ONKEL & ONKEL, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Humanus-Spiele, Walter Flechsig, Kultquartett, Kaba, Klipps Kaffee, Multicolor, Sage, Sons & Co., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Groneweg & Meintrup, Granna, Selecta Spielzeug, Djeco, St. Briktius, General Mills, Fireside Game Co., Jumbo, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, J. Bünting & Co., U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Volkswagen/Audi, The United States Playing Card Company, Richard Hauenstein, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Franz Schmidt, Otto Maier Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Piatnik, Spear's Games, Glücksklee, Nathan, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Carl Werner, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Gustav Weise Verlag, Schwager & Steinlein, National Game Company, Weltquartett, I.C.C. Product, Selecta Spel en Hobby, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Rudolf Forkel KG, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Catullus, Peliko Oy, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Damm / Egmont, Cincinnati Game Co., Carlit, (Unknown), Review and Herald Publishing, Adolf Sala, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Mulder, Sala, Grimaud, Milton Bradley, Russell Manufacturing Company, Tactic, Verlag Bing Werke AG, KOSMOS, Parker Brothers, Bevink Edities, Klee, Kasco Mills, SchneiderBuch, Great American Game Company, F.X. Schmid, Merrimack Publishing Corp., G.M. Whipple, MIKA, AMIGO, (Public Domain), Noris Spiele, Whitman, Erhard Neubert KG
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Werner Graichen, Harri Parschau, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Schaberschul, Manfred Bofinger, M. Neugebauer, Delphine Durand, Heinz Jankofsky, Hubert Lechner, Horst Schrader, Hergé, Richard Hambach, Fiep Westendorp, Arnold Zenkert, Wilhelm Busch, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Uwe Rosenberg, Harry Baerg, Traude Schlegel, Barbara Henniger, Jürgen Kieser, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Louis Rauwolf, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Rolf Kauka, Annemarie Gramberg, Richard Scarry, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Willy Müller-Gera, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Peyo, Virginijus Poshkus, Erich Ohser, Anne Erler-Reichold, Liesel Lauterborn, Janosch, Werner Ruhner, Erich Neubert, Klemens Franz, Ernst Stapelfeld, Hans de Beer, Franz Kerka, Heinz Osthoff, Käthe Francke
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: McLoughlin Brothers, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Eurofranchising B.V., Cartamundi, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Schmidt Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Warren Built Rite Games, ONKEL & ONKEL, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Humanus-Spiele, Walter Flechsig, Kultquartett, Kaba, Klipps Kaffee, Multicolor, Sage, Sons & Co., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Groneweg & Meintrup, Granna, Selecta Spielzeug, Djeco, St. Briktius, General Mills, Fireside Game Co., Jumbo, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, J. Bünting & Co., U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Volkswagen/Audi, The United States Playing Card Company, Richard Hauenstein, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Franz Schmidt, Otto Maier Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Piatnik, Spear's Games, Glücksklee, Nathan, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Carl Werner, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Gustav Weise Verlag, Schwager & Steinlein, National Game Company, Weltquartett, I.C.C. Product, Selecta Spel en Hobby, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Rudolf Forkel KG, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Catullus, Peliko Oy, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Damm / Egmont, Cincinnati Game Co., Carlit, (Unknown), Review and Herald Publishing, Adolf Sala, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Mulder, Sala, Grimaud, Milton Bradley, Russell Manufacturing Company, Tactic, Verlag Bing Werke AG, KOSMOS, Parker Brothers, Bevink Edities, Klee, Kasco Mills, SchneiderBuch, Great American Game Company, F.X. Schmid, Merrimack Publishing Corp., G.M. Whipple, MIKA, AMIGO, (Public Domain), Noris Spiele, Whitman, Erhard Neubert KG
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Werner Graichen, Harri Parschau, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Schaberschul, Manfred Bofinger, M. Neugebauer, Delphine Durand, Heinz Jankofsky, Hubert Lechner, Horst Schrader, Hergé, Richard Hambach, Fiep Westendorp, Arnold Zenkert, Wilhelm Busch, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Uwe Rosenberg, Harry Baerg, Traude Schlegel, Barbara Henniger, Jürgen Kieser, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Louis Rauwolf, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Rolf Kauka, Annemarie Gramberg, Richard Scarry, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Willy Müller-Gera, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Peyo, Virginijus Poshkus, Erich Ohser, Anne Erler-Reichold, Liesel Lauterborn, Janosch, Werner Ruhner, Erich Neubert, Klemens Franz, Ernst Stapelfeld, Hans de Beer, Franz Kerka, Heinz Osthoff, Käthe Francke
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, 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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Erstes Bilderquartett ,
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Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
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Schönes Deutschland ,
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Deutsche Märchen ,
Kasco ,
Führer Quartett ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Game of Flowers ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Oldtimers II ,
Tier Quartett ,
Inventors ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Deutsches Land ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Presidents ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
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7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
American Authors ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Flags ,
Scientists ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
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Game of Poems Illustrated ,
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Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Bergwelt ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Münchhausen ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Unter Geiern ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Tropical Fish ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Baseball Greats ,
Quartets ,
Baustile ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
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Shakespeare ,
American Women Authors ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
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Famous Women ,
Holy Land ,
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Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Authors ,
Citatenquartett ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Vogelwelt ,
Autograph Authors ,
Astronomy ,
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Explorers ,
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Tobias Taps ,
Disney Kwartet ,
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Great Women: Foremothers ,
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Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Agricola Quartett ,
The Author's Game ,
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Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Merry Circus ,
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Robinson ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
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Blumen Quartett ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
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Blühender Garten ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
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A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
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Vater und Sohn ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
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Illustrated Mythology ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
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Zitterbacke ,
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Kuifje Kwartet ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
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Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
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