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