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