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