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