The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Warren Built Rite Games, Mulder, KOSMOS, Franz Schmidt, Russell Manufacturing Company, Carlit, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Jumbo, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Milton Bradley, St. Briktius, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Glücksklee, Bevink Edities, Damm / Egmont, M. Dittert & Co, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Eurofranchising B.V., AMIGO, Multicolor, Sage, Sons & Co., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Spear's Games, Schmidt Spiele, Erhard Neubert KG, McLoughlin Brothers, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Richard Hauenstein, SchneiderBuch, (Public Domain), MIKA, Review and Herald Publishing, Djeco, Adolf Sala, Sala, I.C.C. Product, The United States Playing Card Company, Otto Maier Verlag, Noris Spiele, Schwager & Steinlein, (Unknown), Carl Werner, J. Bünting & Co., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Walter Flechsig, Kasco Mills, F.X. Schmid, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Whitman, Selecta Spielzeug, National Game Company, Catullus, Great American Game Company, Nathan, Bielefelder Spielkarten, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Kultquartett, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Peliko Oy, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Tactic, Piatnik, Cartamundi, Lookout Games, ONKEL & ONKEL, Granna, Weltquartett, Gustav Weise Verlag, Kaba, Cincinnati Game Co., Volkswagen/Audi, Klee, G.M. Whipple, Parker Brothers, Klipps Kaffee, Grimaud, Rudolf Forkel KG, Fireside Game Co., General Mills, Humanus-Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Groneweg & Meintrup, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Regine Grube-Heinecke, Liesel Lauterborn, Richard Scarry, Hergé, Manfred Bofinger, F. W. Martin Wolff, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Harry Baerg, Hans de Beer, Richard Hambach, Ernst Stapelfeld, Max Schaberschul, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Erika Leo-Urban, Klaus Vonderwerth, Louis Rauwolf, Rolf Kauka, Horst Schrader, M. Neugebauer, Jürgen Kieser, Uwe Rosenberg, Annemarie Gramberg, Siegfried Riediger, Peyo, Virginijus Poshkus, Klemens Franz, Erich Ohser, Barbara Henniger, Heinz Osthoff, Harri Parschau, Delphine Durand, Janosch, Fiep Westendorp, Peter Bauer, Käthe Francke, Anne Erler-Reichold, Hubert Lechner, Franz Kerka, Werner Graichen, Heinz Jankofsky, Max Wulff, Willy Müller-Gera, Werner Ruhner, Arnold Zenkert, Erich Neubert, Traude Schlegel, Wilhelm Busch
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Warren Built Rite Games, Mulder, KOSMOS, Franz Schmidt, Russell Manufacturing Company, Carlit, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Jumbo, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Milton Bradley, St. Briktius, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Glücksklee, Bevink Edities, Damm / Egmont, M. Dittert & Co, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Eurofranchising B.V., AMIGO, Multicolor, Sage, Sons & Co., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Spear's Games, Schmidt Spiele, Erhard Neubert KG, McLoughlin Brothers, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Richard Hauenstein, SchneiderBuch, (Public Domain), MIKA, Review and Herald Publishing, Djeco, Adolf Sala, Sala, I.C.C. Product, The United States Playing Card Company, Otto Maier Verlag, Noris Spiele, Schwager & Steinlein, (Unknown), Carl Werner, J. Bünting & Co., ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Walter Flechsig, Kasco Mills, F.X. Schmid, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Whitman, Selecta Spielzeug, National Game Company, Catullus, Great American Game Company, Nathan, Bielefelder Spielkarten, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Kultquartett, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Peliko Oy, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Tactic, Piatnik, Cartamundi, Lookout Games, ONKEL & ONKEL, Granna, Weltquartett, Gustav Weise Verlag, Kaba, Cincinnati Game Co., Volkswagen/Audi, Klee, G.M. Whipple, Parker Brothers, Klipps Kaffee, Grimaud, Rudolf Forkel KG, Fireside Game Co., General Mills, Humanus-Spiele, Jos. Scholz, Groneweg & Meintrup, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Regine Grube-Heinecke, Liesel Lauterborn, Richard Scarry, Hergé, Manfred Bofinger, F. W. Martin Wolff, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Harry Baerg, Hans de Beer, Richard Hambach, Ernst Stapelfeld, Max Schaberschul, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Erika Leo-Urban, Klaus Vonderwerth, Louis Rauwolf, Rolf Kauka, Horst Schrader, M. Neugebauer, Jürgen Kieser, Uwe Rosenberg, Annemarie Gramberg, Siegfried Riediger, Peyo, Virginijus Poshkus, Klemens Franz, Erich Ohser, Barbara Henniger, Heinz Osthoff, Harri Parschau, Delphine Durand, Janosch, Fiep Westendorp, Peter Bauer, Käthe Francke, Anne Erler-Reichold, Hubert Lechner, Franz Kerka, Werner Graichen, Heinz Jankofsky, Max Wulff, Willy Müller-Gera, Werner Ruhner, Arnold Zenkert, Erich Neubert, Traude Schlegel, Wilhelm Busch
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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The game was also published under these names:
Schönes Österreich ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Führer Quartett ,
Robinson ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
So fängt es an... ,
Blumenquartett ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Don Quichote ,
Shakespeare ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Bonanza ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Artists ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Football Greats ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Der Rhein ,
Merry Circus ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Unter Geiern ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Authors Card Game ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Vogelwelt ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Max und Moritz ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Grands Rois ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Blühender Garten ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
The Game of Authors ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
The Game of Cities ,
In the White-House ,
In Castle Land ,
Composers ,
Durch den Harz ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Schwarzwald ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Grosswild ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Märchen Quartett ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Poems ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Tropical Fish ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
American Women Authors ,
The Lion King ,
Kwartet ,
Fairy Tales ,
Mini Monster ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Animal Quartette ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Sternbilder ,
White Squadron ,
Astro Quartett ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Autograph Authors ,
Big Valley ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Märchen ,
Game of Strange People ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Flags ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Deutsches Land ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Pinocchio ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Famous Authors ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Das Heer ,
Authors ,
Vater und Sohn ,
American Authors ,
Bergwelt ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Citatenquartett ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Explorers ,
Fix & Foxi ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Animal Quartett ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Tierkinder ,
Children's Authors ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Oldtimers II ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Game of Artists ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Astronomy ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Opern Quartett ,
Fury ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Komponisten ,
Münchhausen ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
In Castle-Land ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Märchenquartett ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Quartets ,
Flower Families ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Inventors ,
Famous Women ,
Chats Katten ,
Wickie ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Scientists ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Tier Quartett ,
Skippy ,
Baustile ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Holy Land ,
Inside the White House ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Kasco ,
Die Schweiz ,
The Great Composers ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Yellowstone ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
New Testament Game ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Baseball Greats ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Game of Flowers ,
Im Märchenland ,
In the White House ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Alpenblumen ,
Presidents ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Firkort ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Game of Nations ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Tobias Taps ,
Quartett ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
The Author's Game ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Zitterbacke ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Les Grands Hommes de France
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