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