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