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