The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Weltquartett, AMIGO, Gustav Weise Verlag, MIKA, Schwager & Steinlein, KOSMOS, Selecta Spel en Hobby, ONKEL & ONKEL, Otto Maier Verlag, Selecta Spielzeug, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Richard Hauenstein, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Granna, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Wilder Manufacturing Co, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Walter Flechsig, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Groneweg & Meintrup, Damm / Egmont, National Game Company, Fireside Game Co., SchneiderBuch, Jos. Scholz, Kasco Mills, Noris Spiele, M. Dittert & Co, Cincinnati Game Co., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Whitman, Sala, Review and Herald Publishing, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Parker Brothers, Russell Manufacturing Company, Great American Game Company, Warren Built Rite Games, G.M. Whipple, (Public Domain), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Bevink Edities, Cartamundi, Catullus, Humanus-Spiele, Mulder, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Glücksklee, Sage, Sons & Co., Piatnik, St. Briktius, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Verlag Bing Werke AG, F.X. Schmid, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Erhard Neubert KG, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kultquartett, Djeco, General Mills, The United States Playing Card Company, Klee, Franz Schmidt, Schmidt Spiele, McLoughlin Brothers, Adolf Sala, Jumbo, Carl Werner, I.C.C. Product, (Unknown), Tactic, Multicolor, Kaba, Milton Bradley, Nathan, Carlit, Volkswagen/Audi, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Grimaud, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Eurofranchising B.V., Klipps Kaffee, J. Bünting & Co.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Annemarie Gramberg, Erich Neubert, Ernst Stapelfeld, Hergé, Harry Baerg, Liesel Lauterborn, Wilhelm Busch, Max Schaberschul, Janosch, Klaus Vonderwerth, Jürgen Kieser, Werner Ruhner, Traude Schlegel, Max Wulff, M. Neugebauer, Peyo, Fiep Westendorp, Hubert Lechner, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Erika Leo-Urban, Louis Rauwolf, Manfred Bofinger, Heinz Jankofsky, Siegfried Riediger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Arnold Zenkert, Werner Graichen, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Richard Scarry, Uwe Rosenberg, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, Peter Bauer, Erich Ohser, Willy Müller-Gera, Hans de Beer, Virginijus Poshkus, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Rolf Kauka, Delphine Durand, Heinz Osthoff, Klemens Franz, Harri Parschau, Barbara Henniger, Käthe Francke, Franz Kerka, F. W. Martin Wolff, Regine Grube-Heinecke
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Weltquartett, AMIGO, Gustav Weise Verlag, MIKA, Schwager & Steinlein, KOSMOS, Selecta Spel en Hobby, ONKEL & ONKEL, Otto Maier Verlag, Selecta Spielzeug, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Richard Hauenstein, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Granna, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Wilder Manufacturing Co, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Walter Flechsig, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Groneweg & Meintrup, Damm / Egmont, National Game Company, Fireside Game Co., SchneiderBuch, Jos. Scholz, Kasco Mills, Noris Spiele, M. Dittert & Co, Cincinnati Game Co., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Whitman, Sala, Review and Herald Publishing, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Parker Brothers, Russell Manufacturing Company, Great American Game Company, Warren Built Rite Games, G.M. Whipple, (Public Domain), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Bevink Edities, Cartamundi, Catullus, Humanus-Spiele, Mulder, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Glücksklee, Sage, Sons & Co., Piatnik, St. Briktius, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Verlag Bing Werke AG, F.X. Schmid, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Erhard Neubert KG, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kultquartett, Djeco, General Mills, The United States Playing Card Company, Klee, Franz Schmidt, Schmidt Spiele, McLoughlin Brothers, Adolf Sala, Jumbo, Carl Werner, I.C.C. Product, (Unknown), Tactic, Multicolor, Kaba, Milton Bradley, Nathan, Carlit, Volkswagen/Audi, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Grimaud, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Eurofranchising B.V., Klipps Kaffee, J. Bünting & Co.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Annemarie Gramberg, Erich Neubert, Ernst Stapelfeld, Hergé, Harry Baerg, Liesel Lauterborn, Wilhelm Busch, Max Schaberschul, Janosch, Klaus Vonderwerth, Jürgen Kieser, Werner Ruhner, Traude Schlegel, Max Wulff, M. Neugebauer, Peyo, Fiep Westendorp, Hubert Lechner, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Erika Leo-Urban, Louis Rauwolf, Manfred Bofinger, Heinz Jankofsky, Siegfried Riediger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Arnold Zenkert, Werner Graichen, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Richard Scarry, Uwe Rosenberg, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, Peter Bauer, Erich Ohser, Willy Müller-Gera, Hans de Beer, Virginijus Poshkus, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Rolf Kauka, Delphine Durand, Heinz Osthoff, Klemens Franz, Harri Parschau, Barbara Henniger, Käthe Francke, Franz Kerka, F. W. Martin Wolff, Regine Grube-Heinecke
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, 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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Alpenblumen ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Aus nah und fern ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Sternbilder ,
Märchen ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
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Kinderwelt Märchen ,
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Lawmen of the Old West ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Vogelwelt ,
Famous Women ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Robinson ,
Baustile ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Kwartet ,
Artists ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Inside the White House ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Blumenquartett ,
Pinocchio ,
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Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
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Oldtimers II ,
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Schlumpf Quartett ,
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The National Game of Public Men ,
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Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
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Fury ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
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Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
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Kunterbunt Quartett ,
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Schönes Deutschland ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
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