The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: F.X. Schmid, MIKA, Schüle-Hohenlohe, (Public Domain), Verlag Bing Werke AG, Klipps Kaffee, Carlit, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Russell Manufacturing Company, General Mills, Lookout Games, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Mulder, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Djeco, Sala, St. Briktius, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, ONKEL & ONKEL, Gustav Weise Verlag, Multicolor, Erhard Neubert KG, Kasco Mills, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Cincinnati Game Co., McLoughlin Brothers, Adolf Sala, SchneiderBuch, Carl Werner, Damm / Egmont, Peliko Oy, Warren Built Rite Games, Jos. Scholz, Sage, Sons & Co., National Game Company, Piatnik, Klee, Walter Flechsig, Kultquartett, (Unknown), Noris Spiele, Review and Herald Publishing, H. P. Gibson & Sons, I.C.C. Product, Catullus, Kaba, Tactic, G.M. Whipple, M. Dittert & Co, Spear's Games, Bielefelder Spielkarten, The United States Playing Card Company, KOSMOS, Selecta Spielzeug, Rudolf Forkel KG, Volkswagen/Audi, Eurofranchising B.V., Nathan, Granna, Grimaud, Otto Maier Verlag, Glücksklee, Great American Game Company, Schwager & Steinlein, Humanus-Spiele, Milton Bradley, Groneweg & Meintrup, Jumbo, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Parker Brothers, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, AMIGO, Cartamundi, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Franz Schmidt, Fireside Game Co., Weltquartett, Bevink Edities, Schmidt Spiele, Whitman, J. Bünting & Co., Wilder Manufacturing Co, Richard Hauenstein
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: W Wilhelmsmeyer, Traude Schlegel, Heinz Jankofsky, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, M. Neugebauer, Käthe Francke, Erich Neubert, Erich Ohser, Richard Scarry, Werner Graichen, Harry Baerg, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Uwe Rosenberg, Annemarie Gramberg, F. W. Martin Wolff, Max Wulff, Heinz Osthoff, Werner Ruhner, Janosch, Horst Schrader, Hubert Lechner, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Peyo, Rolf Kauka, Anne Erler-Reichold, Ernst Stapelfeld, Delphine Durand, Jürgen Kieser, Hergé, Virginijus Poshkus, Hans de Beer, Willy Müller-Gera, Fiep Westendorp, Arnold Zenkert, Franz Kerka, Louis Rauwolf, Erika Leo-Urban, Wilhelm Busch, Manfred Bofinger, Peter Bauer, Klaus Vonderwerth, Richard Hambach, Max Schaberschul, Siegfried Riediger, Barbara Henniger, Harri Parschau
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: F.X. Schmid, MIKA, Schüle-Hohenlohe, (Public Domain), Verlag Bing Werke AG, Klipps Kaffee, Carlit, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Russell Manufacturing Company, General Mills, Lookout Games, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Mulder, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Djeco, Sala, St. Briktius, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, ONKEL & ONKEL, Gustav Weise Verlag, Multicolor, Erhard Neubert KG, Kasco Mills, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Cincinnati Game Co., McLoughlin Brothers, Adolf Sala, SchneiderBuch, Carl Werner, Damm / Egmont, Peliko Oy, Warren Built Rite Games, Jos. Scholz, Sage, Sons & Co., National Game Company, Piatnik, Klee, Walter Flechsig, Kultquartett, (Unknown), Noris Spiele, Review and Herald Publishing, H. P. Gibson & Sons, I.C.C. Product, Catullus, Kaba, Tactic, G.M. Whipple, M. Dittert & Co, Spear's Games, Bielefelder Spielkarten, The United States Playing Card Company, KOSMOS, Selecta Spielzeug, Rudolf Forkel KG, Volkswagen/Audi, Eurofranchising B.V., Nathan, Granna, Grimaud, Otto Maier Verlag, Glücksklee, Great American Game Company, Schwager & Steinlein, Humanus-Spiele, Milton Bradley, Groneweg & Meintrup, Jumbo, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Parker Brothers, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, AMIGO, Cartamundi, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Franz Schmidt, Fireside Game Co., Weltquartett, Bevink Edities, Schmidt Spiele, Whitman, J. Bünting & Co., Wilder Manufacturing Co, Richard Hauenstein
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: W Wilhelmsmeyer, Traude Schlegel, Heinz Jankofsky, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, M. Neugebauer, Käthe Francke, Erich Neubert, Erich Ohser, Richard Scarry, Werner Graichen, Harry Baerg, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Uwe Rosenberg, Annemarie Gramberg, F. W. Martin Wolff, Max Wulff, Heinz Osthoff, Werner Ruhner, Janosch, Horst Schrader, Hubert Lechner, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Peyo, Rolf Kauka, Anne Erler-Reichold, Ernst Stapelfeld, Delphine Durand, Jürgen Kieser, Hergé, Virginijus Poshkus, Hans de Beer, Willy Müller-Gera, Fiep Westendorp, Arnold Zenkert, Franz Kerka, Louis Rauwolf, Erika Leo-Urban, Wilhelm Busch, Manfred Bofinger, Peter Bauer, Klaus Vonderwerth, Richard Hambach, Max Schaberschul, Siegfried Riediger, Barbara Henniger, Harri Parschau
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
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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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Sport-Quartett ,
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Unser Sternenhimmel ,
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Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Robinson ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
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Schlumpf Quartett ,
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Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
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Allez-Hop! ,
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Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Chats Katten ,
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Märchen-Quartett ,
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Richard Scarry Firkort ,
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Citatenquartett ,
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Opern Quartett ,
Baustile ,
Firkort ,
Kasco ,
Scientists ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
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