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