The Game of Authors (1861)

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

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.



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