The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Klee, Parker Brothers, Cincinnati Game Co., (Unknown), Wilder Manufacturing Co, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Humanus-Spiele, Adolf Sala, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Damm / Egmont, Multicolor, Fireside Game Co., Jos. Scholz, M. Dittert & Co, McLoughlin Brothers, Rudolf Forkel KG, F.X. Schmid, Djeco, Lookout Games, J. Bünting & Co., Piatnik, Sala, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Tactic, (Public Domain), H. P. Gibson & Sons, Selecta Spel en Hobby, St. Briktius, Klipps Kaffee, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Otto Maier Verlag, Franz Schmidt, Carl Werner, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Catullus, Schwager & Steinlein, MIKA, Sage, Sons & Co., Granna, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Whitman, Bevink Edities, KOSMOS, AMIGO, Review and Herald Publishing, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schmidt Spiele, I.C.C. Product, Russell Manufacturing Company, Eurofranchising B.V., SchneiderBuch, Gustav Weise Verlag, Glücksklee, Weltquartett, Peliko Oy, Noris Spiele, General Mills, Volkswagen/Audi, Carlit, Richard Hauenstein, Mulder, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Warren Built Rite Games, National Game Company, ONKEL & ONKEL, Nathan, Cartamundi, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, The United States Playing Card Company, Kultquartett, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Jumbo, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Grimaud, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Spear's Games, Kasco Mills, G.M. Whipple, Great American Game Company, Selecta Spielzeug, Walter Flechsig, Groneweg & Meintrup, Erhard Neubert KG, Milton Bradley, Kaba
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Fiep Westendorp, Max Schaberschul, Uwe Rosenberg, M. Neugebauer, Heinz Osthoff, Peter Bauer, Rolf Kauka, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Hubert Lechner, Erika Leo-Urban, Louis Rauwolf, Heinz Jankofsky, Siegfried Riediger, Harry Baerg, Klaus Vonderwerth, Willy Müller-Gera, Horst Schrader, Janosch, Traude Schlegel, Richard Hambach, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hans de Beer, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Delphine Durand, Annemarie Gramberg, Jürgen Kieser, Peyo, Klemens Franz, Ernst Stapelfeld, Liesel Lauterborn, Erich Ohser, Wilhelm Busch, Erich Neubert, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Max Wulff, Werner Ruhner, Hergé, Richard Scarry, Virginijus Poshkus, Werner Graichen, Franz Kerka, Barbara Henniger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harri Parschau, Käthe Francke, Arnold Zenkert, Manfred Bofinger
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Klee, Parker Brothers, Cincinnati Game Co., (Unknown), Wilder Manufacturing Co, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Humanus-Spiele, Adolf Sala, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Damm / Egmont, Multicolor, Fireside Game Co., Jos. Scholz, M. Dittert & Co, McLoughlin Brothers, Rudolf Forkel KG, F.X. Schmid, Djeco, Lookout Games, J. Bünting & Co., Piatnik, Sala, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Tactic, (Public Domain), H. P. Gibson & Sons, Selecta Spel en Hobby, St. Briktius, Klipps Kaffee, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Otto Maier Verlag, Franz Schmidt, Carl Werner, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Catullus, Schwager & Steinlein, MIKA, Sage, Sons & Co., Granna, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Whitman, Bevink Edities, KOSMOS, AMIGO, Review and Herald Publishing, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schmidt Spiele, I.C.C. Product, Russell Manufacturing Company, Eurofranchising B.V., SchneiderBuch, Gustav Weise Verlag, Glücksklee, Weltquartett, Peliko Oy, Noris Spiele, General Mills, Volkswagen/Audi, Carlit, Richard Hauenstein, Mulder, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Warren Built Rite Games, National Game Company, ONKEL & ONKEL, Nathan, Cartamundi, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, The United States Playing Card Company, Kultquartett, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Jumbo, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Grimaud, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Spear's Games, Kasco Mills, G.M. Whipple, Great American Game Company, Selecta Spielzeug, Walter Flechsig, Groneweg & Meintrup, Erhard Neubert KG, Milton Bradley, Kaba
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Fiep Westendorp, Max Schaberschul, Uwe Rosenberg, M. Neugebauer, Heinz Osthoff, Peter Bauer, Rolf Kauka, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Hubert Lechner, Erika Leo-Urban, Louis Rauwolf, Heinz Jankofsky, Siegfried Riediger, Harry Baerg, Klaus Vonderwerth, Willy Müller-Gera, Horst Schrader, Janosch, Traude Schlegel, Richard Hambach, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hans de Beer, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Delphine Durand, Annemarie Gramberg, Jürgen Kieser, Peyo, Klemens Franz, Ernst Stapelfeld, Liesel Lauterborn, Erich Ohser, Wilhelm Busch, Erich Neubert, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Max Wulff, Werner Ruhner, Hergé, Richard Scarry, Virginijus Poshkus, Werner Graichen, Franz Kerka, Barbara Henniger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harri Parschau, Käthe Francke, Arnold Zenkert, Manfred Bofinger
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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Türkisch 8 ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Autograph Authors ,
Märchenquartett ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Sport-Quartett ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Famous Women ,
Firkort ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Fairy Tales ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Famous Authors ,
Explorers ,
Authors ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Schwarzwald ,
Flower Families ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Game of Flowers ,
Artists ,
Children's Authors ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Don Quichote ,
Durch den Harz ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Quartets ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Tier Quartett ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Tropical Fish ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Blumenquartett ,
Holy Land ,
Game of Nations ,
White Squadron ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Tobias Taps ,
Authors Card Game ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
The Author's Game ,
Tierkinder ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Max und Moritz ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Opern Quartett ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Vogelwelt ,
Das Heer ,
Big Valley ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Chats Katten ,
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Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
American Women Authors ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Baustile ,
Inventors ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Baseball Greats ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Skippy ,
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Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Robinson ,
Composers ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Der Rhein ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Presidents ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Deutsches Land ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Merry Circus ,
Animal Quartett ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Unter Geiern ,
Quartett ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Blühender Garten ,
Mini Monster ,
Blumen Quartett ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Inside the White House ,
In the White House ,
Flags ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Im Märchenland ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Komponisten ,
Bonanza ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Münchhausen ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Sternbilder ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
New Testament Game ,
Fury ,
Alpenblumen ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Poems ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Yellowstone ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Die Schweiz ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
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The National Game of Public Men ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
American Authors ,
In Castle-Land ,
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Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Kwartet ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Zitterbacke ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Astronomy ,
7 Hühnchen ,
The Lion King ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Game of Strange People ,
Grosswild ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
The Game of Authors ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Axel und die Autos ,
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Schweizer Heimat ,
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Entdecker Der Erde ,
Schuss und Tor ,
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Führer Quartett ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
The Game of Cities ,
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Weidmannsheil ,
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Märchen ,
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Vater und Sohn ,
Pinocchio ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Citatenquartett ,
Animal Quartette ,
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Wickie ,
Astro Quartett ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
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Football Greats ,
Bergwelt ,
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Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
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