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