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