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