The Game of Authors (1861)

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

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.



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