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