The Game of Authors (1861)

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

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.



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