The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Fireside Game Co., Nathan, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Walter Flechsig, Cartamundi, Grimaud, Erhard Neubert KG, Humanus-Spiele, Milton Bradley, Carl Werner, McLoughlin Brothers, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Klipps Kaffee, Warren Built Rite Games, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Glücksklee, Piatnik, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Granna, Whitman, Klee, Franz Schmidt, Noris Spiele, Djeco, Selecta Spel en Hobby, General Mills, Russell Manufacturing Company, Adolf Sala, Mulder, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Bielefelder Spielkarten, St. Briktius, Damm / Egmont, Rudolf Forkel KG, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, F.X. Schmid, I.C.C. Product, Cincinnati Game Co., Bevink Edities, Great American Game Company, Selecta Spielzeug, ONKEL & ONKEL, KOSMOS, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Schwager & Steinlein, Kaba, Gustav Weise Verlag, SchneiderBuch, Richard Hauenstein, Sala, Weltquartett, Carlit, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Sage, Sons & Co., Review and Herald Publishing, The United States Playing Card Company, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Catullus, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, G.M. Whipple, Peliko Oy, Kultquartett, Groneweg & Meintrup, (Public Domain), MIKA, Verlag Bing Werke AG, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Parker Brothers, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Multicolor, AMIGO, Spear's Games, National Game Company, Tactic, Otto Maier Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Eurofranchising B.V., Jumbo, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Jos. Scholz, Schmidt Spiele, J. Bünting & Co.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Heinz Jankofsky, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Käthe Francke, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hergé, Heinz Osthoff, Hubert Lechner, Klemens Franz, Harry Baerg, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, F. W. Martin Wolff, Arnold Zenkert, Peter Bauer, Barbara Henniger, Max Wulff, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Franz Kerka, M. Neugebauer, Max Schaberschul, Hans de Beer, Erich Neubert, Harri Parschau, Wilhelm Busch, Willy Müller-Gera, Erich Ohser, Richard Scarry, Werner Ruhner, Traude Schlegel, Liesel Lauterborn, Annemarie Gramberg, Manfred Bofinger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Ernst Stapelfeld, Uwe Rosenberg, Erika Leo-Urban, Siegfried Riediger, Virginijus Poshkus, Fiep Westendorp, Louis Rauwolf, Anne Erler-Reichold, Horst Schrader, Werner Graichen, Janosch, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Rolf Kauka, Peyo, Jürgen Kieser
Mechanics: Memory, Set Collection, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Fireside Game Co., Nathan, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Walter Flechsig, Cartamundi, Grimaud, Erhard Neubert KG, Humanus-Spiele, Milton Bradley, Carl Werner, McLoughlin Brothers, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Klipps Kaffee, Warren Built Rite Games, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Glücksklee, Piatnik, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Granna, Whitman, Klee, Franz Schmidt, Noris Spiele, Djeco, Selecta Spel en Hobby, General Mills, Russell Manufacturing Company, Adolf Sala, Mulder, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Bielefelder Spielkarten, St. Briktius, Damm / Egmont, Rudolf Forkel KG, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, F.X. Schmid, I.C.C. Product, Cincinnati Game Co., Bevink Edities, Great American Game Company, Selecta Spielzeug, ONKEL & ONKEL, KOSMOS, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Schwager & Steinlein, Kaba, Gustav Weise Verlag, SchneiderBuch, Richard Hauenstein, Sala, Weltquartett, Carlit, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Sage, Sons & Co., Review and Herald Publishing, The United States Playing Card Company, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Catullus, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, G.M. Whipple, Peliko Oy, Kultquartett, Groneweg & Meintrup, (Public Domain), MIKA, Verlag Bing Werke AG, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Parker Brothers, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Multicolor, AMIGO, Spear's Games, National Game Company, Tactic, Otto Maier Verlag, M. Dittert & Co, Eurofranchising B.V., Jumbo, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Jos. Scholz, Schmidt Spiele, J. Bünting & Co.
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Heinz Jankofsky, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Käthe Francke, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hergé, Heinz Osthoff, Hubert Lechner, Klemens Franz, Harry Baerg, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, F. W. Martin Wolff, Arnold Zenkert, Peter Bauer, Barbara Henniger, Max Wulff, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Franz Kerka, M. Neugebauer, Max Schaberschul, Hans de Beer, Erich Neubert, Harri Parschau, Wilhelm Busch, Willy Müller-Gera, Erich Ohser, Richard Scarry, Werner Ruhner, Traude Schlegel, Liesel Lauterborn, Annemarie Gramberg, Manfred Bofinger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Ernst Stapelfeld, Uwe Rosenberg, Erika Leo-Urban, Siegfried Riediger, Virginijus Poshkus, Fiep Westendorp, Louis Rauwolf, Anne Erler-Reichold, Horst Schrader, Werner Graichen, Janosch, Richard Hambach, Delphine Durand, Rolf Kauka, Peyo, Jürgen Kieser
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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Kasco ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Baustile ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
In the White-House ,
Opern Quartett ,
Elefanten Boy ,
In Castle-Land ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
The Author's Game ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Zitterbacke ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Game of Flowers ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Big Valley ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Tobias Taps ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Durch den Harz ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Das Heer ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Wickie ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Game of Nations ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Deutsches Land ,
Animal Quartett ,
Robinson ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Führer Quartett ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Game of Strange People ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Poems ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Authors ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
The Game of Authors ,
Schwarzwald ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Yellowstone ,
Flags ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Game of Artists ,
Flower Families ,
Tropical Fish ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Trees and Flowers ,
American Authors ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Bergwelt ,
Sternbilder ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Football Greats ,
Authors Card Game ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
In Castle Land ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Münchhausen ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Die Schweiz ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
New Testament Game ,
Vogelwelt ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
American Women Authors ,
Astro Quartett ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Chats Katten ,
Don Quichote ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Presidents ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Tierkinder ,
Bonanza ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Citatenquartett ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Komponisten ,
Grosswild ,
Tier Quartett ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Max und Moritz ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Im Märchenland ,
Merry Circus ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Composers ,
Artists ,
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Der Rhein ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
The Lion King ,
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Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
The Great Composers ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Children's Authors ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Astronomy ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Oldtimers II ,
Pinocchio ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Märchenquartett ,
White Squadron ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Grands Rois ,
Unter Geiern ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Kwartet ,
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In the White House ,
Baseball Greats ,
Fury ,
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Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
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Märchen ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Inside the White House ,
Quartett ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Skippy ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Holy Land ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Famous Women ,
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Jasper Quartett ,
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Dieren Kwartet ,
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Les Grands Hommes de France ,
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Weidmannsheil ,
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Inventors ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Autograph Authors ,
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Mini Monster ,
Fairy Tales ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Shakespeare ,
Zoo Quartett ,
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Famous Authors ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
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Fussball Quartett ,
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Great Women: Foremothers ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
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Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
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