The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Rudolf Forkel KG, J. Bünting & Co., Selecta Spel en Hobby, Schwager & Steinlein, Volkswagen/Audi, M. Dittert & Co, Granna, Peliko Oy, St. Briktius, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Spear's Games, Lookout Games, G.M. Whipple, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Otto Maier Verlag, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Glücksklee, MIKA, Nathan, Humanus-Spiele, Eurofranchising B.V., ONKEL & ONKEL, Klee, Weltquartett, Erhard Neubert KG, National Game Company, Milton Bradley, Jumbo, Djeco, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Parker Brothers, Walter Flechsig, Noris Spiele, Selecta Spielzeug, Tactic, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Mulder, The United States Playing Card Company, Multicolor, Whitman, Bevink Edities, AMIGO, Gustav Weise Verlag, Damm / Egmont, Piatnik, Sage, Sons & Co., (Unknown), Review and Herald Publishing, KOSMOS, Warren Built Rite Games, Carl Werner, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Sala, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Schmidt Spiele, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Klipps Kaffee, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Adolf Sala, Cartamundi, (Public Domain), U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Franz Schmidt, Carlit, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, General Mills, Russell Manufacturing Company, Kaba, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, McLoughlin Brothers, Grimaud, Kasco Mills, Fireside Game Co., VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Richard Hauenstein, Catullus, Great American Game Company, I.C.C. Product, Cincinnati Game Co., Groneweg & Meintrup, Jos. Scholz, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, F.X. Schmid, SchneiderBuch, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Kultquartett
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Klemens Franz, Heinz Jankofsky, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Traude Schlegel, Hergé, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Harry Baerg, Wilhelm Busch, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Harri Parschau, Willy Müller-Gera, Werner Graichen, Liesel Lauterborn, Manfred Bofinger, Annemarie Gramberg, Erich Ohser, Hubert Lechner, Siegfried Riediger, Käthe Francke, Richard Scarry, Fiep Westendorp, Rolf Kauka, Horst Schrader, Peter Bauer, M. Neugebauer, Heinz Osthoff, F. W. Martin Wolff, Janosch, Anne Erler-Reichold, Louis Rauwolf, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Schaberschul, Virginijus Poshkus, Arnold Zenkert, Peyo, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hans de Beer, Max Wulff, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Jürgen Kieser, Werner Ruhner, Barbara Henniger, Ernst Stapelfeld, Uwe Rosenberg, Erich Neubert, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Franz Kerka
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Rudolf Forkel KG, J. Bünting & Co., Selecta Spel en Hobby, Schwager & Steinlein, Volkswagen/Audi, M. Dittert & Co, Granna, Peliko Oy, St. Briktius, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Spear's Games, Lookout Games, G.M. Whipple, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Otto Maier Verlag, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Glücksklee, MIKA, Nathan, Humanus-Spiele, Eurofranchising B.V., ONKEL & ONKEL, Klee, Weltquartett, Erhard Neubert KG, National Game Company, Milton Bradley, Jumbo, Djeco, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Parker Brothers, Walter Flechsig, Noris Spiele, Selecta Spielzeug, Tactic, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Mulder, The United States Playing Card Company, Multicolor, Whitman, Bevink Edities, AMIGO, Gustav Weise Verlag, Damm / Egmont, Piatnik, Sage, Sons & Co., (Unknown), Review and Herald Publishing, KOSMOS, Warren Built Rite Games, Carl Werner, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Sala, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Schmidt Spiele, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Klipps Kaffee, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Adolf Sala, Cartamundi, (Public Domain), U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Franz Schmidt, Carlit, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, General Mills, Russell Manufacturing Company, Kaba, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, McLoughlin Brothers, Grimaud, Kasco Mills, Fireside Game Co., VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Richard Hauenstein, Catullus, Great American Game Company, I.C.C. Product, Cincinnati Game Co., Groneweg & Meintrup, Jos. Scholz, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, F.X. Schmid, SchneiderBuch, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Kultquartett
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Klemens Franz, Heinz Jankofsky, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Traude Schlegel, Hergé, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Harry Baerg, Wilhelm Busch, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Harri Parschau, Willy Müller-Gera, Werner Graichen, Liesel Lauterborn, Manfred Bofinger, Annemarie Gramberg, Erich Ohser, Hubert Lechner, Siegfried Riediger, Käthe Francke, Richard Scarry, Fiep Westendorp, Rolf Kauka, Horst Schrader, Peter Bauer, M. Neugebauer, Heinz Osthoff, F. W. Martin Wolff, Janosch, Anne Erler-Reichold, Louis Rauwolf, Erika Leo-Urban, Max Schaberschul, Virginijus Poshkus, Arnold Zenkert, Peyo, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hans de Beer, Max Wulff, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Jürgen Kieser, Werner Ruhner, Barbara Henniger, Ernst Stapelfeld, Uwe Rosenberg, Erich Neubert, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Franz Kerka
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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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Axel und die Autos ,
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