The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Jumbo, Kultquartett, Rudolf Forkel KG, Erhard Neubert KG, Review and Herald Publishing, Eurofranchising B.V., SchneiderBuch, KOSMOS, Carlit, Bevink Edities, Weltquartett, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, MIKA, Jos. Scholz, Schwager & Steinlein, Djeco, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Nathan, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schüle-Hohenlohe, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Kaba, Volkswagen/Audi, Merrimack Publishing Corp., The United States Playing Card Company, Glücksklee, Groneweg & Meintrup, Gustav Weise Verlag, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Parker Brothers, Sala, Walter Flechsig, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Cincinnati Game Co., Richard Hauenstein, (Public Domain), Catullus, Noris Spiele, Mulder, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Cartamundi, G.M. Whipple, St. Briktius, Fireside Game Co., Selecta Spielzeug, Bielefelder Spielkarten, AMIGO, Tactic, I.C.C. Product, Klee, Granna, Great American Game Company, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Russell Manufacturing Company, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, National Game Company, Multicolor, McLoughlin Brothers, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, (Unknown), Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Lookout Games, Carl Werner, F.X. Schmid, Franz Schmidt, Piatnik, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Kasco Mills, Adolf Sala, Sage, Sons & Co., Whitman, Warren Built Rite Games, Damm / Egmont, Otto Maier Verlag, Schmidt Spiele, J. Bünting & Co., Selecta Spel en Hobby, Grimaud, Humanus-Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, M. Dittert & Co, ONKEL & ONKEL, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Milton Bradley, General Mills
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Heinz Osthoff, M. Neugebauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Harri Parschau, Liesel Lauterborn, Siegfried Riediger, Ernst Stapelfeld, Max Schaberschul, Wilhelm Busch, Werner Graichen, Virginijus Poshkus, Erich Neubert, Hergé, Peyo, Traude Schlegel, Peter Bauer, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Werner Ruhner, Rolf Kauka, Harry Baerg, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Klemens Franz, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Jürgen Kieser, Manfred Bofinger, Heinz Jankofsky, Delphine Durand, Anne Erler-Reichold, Richard Scarry, Käthe Francke, Horst Schrader, Uwe Rosenberg, Erika Leo-Urban, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hans de Beer, Annemarie Gramberg, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Arnold Zenkert, Barbara Henniger, Franz Kerka, Willy Müller-Gera, Hubert Lechner, Fiep Westendorp, Janosch, Richard Hambach
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Jumbo, Kultquartett, Rudolf Forkel KG, Erhard Neubert KG, Review and Herald Publishing, Eurofranchising B.V., SchneiderBuch, KOSMOS, Carlit, Bevink Edities, Weltquartett, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, MIKA, Jos. Scholz, Schwager & Steinlein, Djeco, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Nathan, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schüle-Hohenlohe, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Kaba, Volkswagen/Audi, Merrimack Publishing Corp., The United States Playing Card Company, Glücksklee, Groneweg & Meintrup, Gustav Weise Verlag, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Parker Brothers, Sala, Walter Flechsig, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Cincinnati Game Co., Richard Hauenstein, (Public Domain), Catullus, Noris Spiele, Mulder, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Cartamundi, G.M. Whipple, St. Briktius, Fireside Game Co., Selecta Spielzeug, Bielefelder Spielkarten, AMIGO, Tactic, I.C.C. Product, Klee, Granna, Great American Game Company, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Russell Manufacturing Company, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, National Game Company, Multicolor, McLoughlin Brothers, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, (Unknown), Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Lookout Games, Carl Werner, F.X. Schmid, Franz Schmidt, Piatnik, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Kasco Mills, Adolf Sala, Sage, Sons & Co., Whitman, Warren Built Rite Games, Damm / Egmont, Otto Maier Verlag, Schmidt Spiele, J. Bünting & Co., Selecta Spel en Hobby, Grimaud, Humanus-Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, M. Dittert & Co, ONKEL & ONKEL, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Milton Bradley, General Mills
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Heinz Osthoff, M. Neugebauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Harri Parschau, Liesel Lauterborn, Siegfried Riediger, Ernst Stapelfeld, Max Schaberschul, Wilhelm Busch, Werner Graichen, Virginijus Poshkus, Erich Neubert, Hergé, Peyo, Traude Schlegel, Peter Bauer, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Werner Ruhner, Rolf Kauka, Harry Baerg, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Klemens Franz, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Jürgen Kieser, Manfred Bofinger, Heinz Jankofsky, Delphine Durand, Anne Erler-Reichold, Richard Scarry, Käthe Francke, Horst Schrader, Uwe Rosenberg, Erika Leo-Urban, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hans de Beer, Annemarie Gramberg, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Arnold Zenkert, Barbara Henniger, Franz Kerka, Willy Müller-Gera, Hubert Lechner, Fiep Westendorp, Janosch, Richard Hambach
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
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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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Fipps der Affe ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
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Tyrannen Quartett ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
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Lawmen of the Old West ,
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Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Astro Quartett ,
Explorers ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Zitterbacke ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Bergwelt ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
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Türkisch 8 ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
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Pioneers in Medicine ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
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Märchen Quartett ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
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Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Game of Strange People ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Münchhausen ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Authors ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Autograph Authors ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
The Game of Authors ,
Flags ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Oldtimers II ,
Don Quichote ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Baseball Greats ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
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Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Animal Quartett ,
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Buchstaben Quartett ,
The Lion King ,
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Inventors ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
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Merry Circus ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
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Alpenblumen ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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7 Hühnchen ,
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Holy Land ,
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Donald im Zirkus ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
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Presidents ,
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