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