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