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