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