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