The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Mulder, Volkswagen/Audi, Noris Spiele, MIKA, Walter Flechsig, Milton Bradley, Cartamundi, Franz Schmidt, General Mills, Parker Brothers, Djeco, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, ONKEL & ONKEL, Kasco Mills, Carl Werner, (Public Domain), Grimaud, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Adolf Sala, The United States Playing Card Company, Carlit, Russell Manufacturing Company, Bevink Edities, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Richard Hauenstein, AMIGO, J. Bünting & Co., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, (Unknown), Fireside Game Co., Erhard Neubert KG, Multicolor, Groneweg & Meintrup, Piatnik, Klipps Kaffee, National Game Company, Glücksklee, Selecta Spielzeug, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Review and Herald Publishing, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Jos. Scholz, Otto Maier Verlag, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kultquartett, Great American Game Company, Kaba, Whitman, M. Dittert & Co, Verlag Bing Werke AG, KOSMOS, Spear's Games, F.X. Schmid, Catullus, Gustav Weise Verlag, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Cincinnati Game Co., Nathan, G.M. Whipple, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Granna, Eurofranchising B.V., Jumbo, Schwager & Steinlein, Tactic, Klee, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Merrimack Publishing Corp., St. Briktius, Sala, SchneiderBuch, Weltquartett, Lookout Games, I.C.C. Product, Damm / Egmont, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, McLoughlin Brothers, Schmidt Spiele, Peliko Oy, Warren Built Rite Games, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Sage, Sons & Co., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Humanus-Spiele
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: M. Neugebauer, Werner Ruhner, Janosch, Liesel Lauterborn, Richard Scarry, Hans de Beer, Horst Schrader, Harry Baerg, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peyo, F. W. Martin Wolff, Delphine Durand, Fiep Westendorp, Max Schaberschul, Annemarie Gramberg, Heinz Jankofsky, Wilhelm Busch, Klemens Franz, Richard Hambach, Rolf Kauka, Ernst Stapelfeld, Max Wulff, Erika Leo-Urban, Virginijus Poshkus, Franz Kerka, Erich Neubert, Erich Ohser, Werner Graichen, Jürgen Kieser, Harri Parschau, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Uwe Rosenberg, Anne Erler-Reichold, Hergé, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Heinz Osthoff, Traude Schlegel, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Käthe Francke, Louis Rauwolf, Willy Müller-Gera, Arnold Zenkert, Peter Bauer, Barbara Henniger, Manfred Bofinger, Hubert Lechner
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Mulder, Volkswagen/Audi, Noris Spiele, MIKA, Walter Flechsig, Milton Bradley, Cartamundi, Franz Schmidt, General Mills, Parker Brothers, Djeco, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, ONKEL & ONKEL, Kasco Mills, Carl Werner, (Public Domain), Grimaud, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Adolf Sala, The United States Playing Card Company, Carlit, Russell Manufacturing Company, Bevink Edities, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Richard Hauenstein, AMIGO, J. Bünting & Co., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, (Unknown), Fireside Game Co., Erhard Neubert KG, Multicolor, Groneweg & Meintrup, Piatnik, Klipps Kaffee, National Game Company, Glücksklee, Selecta Spielzeug, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Review and Herald Publishing, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Jos. Scholz, Otto Maier Verlag, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kultquartett, Great American Game Company, Kaba, Whitman, M. Dittert & Co, Verlag Bing Werke AG, KOSMOS, Spear's Games, F.X. Schmid, Catullus, Gustav Weise Verlag, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Cincinnati Game Co., Nathan, G.M. Whipple, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Granna, Eurofranchising B.V., Jumbo, Schwager & Steinlein, Tactic, Klee, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Merrimack Publishing Corp., St. Briktius, Sala, SchneiderBuch, Weltquartett, Lookout Games, I.C.C. Product, Damm / Egmont, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, McLoughlin Brothers, Schmidt Spiele, Peliko Oy, Warren Built Rite Games, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Sage, Sons & Co., Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Humanus-Spiele
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: M. Neugebauer, Werner Ruhner, Janosch, Liesel Lauterborn, Richard Scarry, Hans de Beer, Horst Schrader, Harry Baerg, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peyo, F. W. Martin Wolff, Delphine Durand, Fiep Westendorp, Max Schaberschul, Annemarie Gramberg, Heinz Jankofsky, Wilhelm Busch, Klemens Franz, Richard Hambach, Rolf Kauka, Ernst Stapelfeld, Max Wulff, Erika Leo-Urban, Virginijus Poshkus, Franz Kerka, Erich Neubert, Erich Ohser, Werner Graichen, Jürgen Kieser, Harri Parschau, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Uwe Rosenberg, Anne Erler-Reichold, Hergé, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Heinz Osthoff, Traude Schlegel, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Käthe Francke, Louis Rauwolf, Willy Müller-Gera, Arnold Zenkert, Peter Bauer, Barbara Henniger, Manfred Bofinger, Hubert Lechner
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, 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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Kleine Tierwelt ,
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Schuss und Tor ,
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Zitterbacke ,
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Weidmannsheil ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
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Tier Quartett ,
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Wickie ,
Game of Artists ,
Flags ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Explorers ,
Komponisten ,
7 Hühnchen ,
In the White-House ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Türkisch 8 ,
The Game of Cities ,
Märchenquartett ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Grands Rois ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Oldtimers II ,
The Lion King ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
The Great Composers ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Firkort ,
Chats Katten ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
So fängt es an... ,
Astro Quartett ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
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Children's Authors ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Märchen Quartett ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
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Big Valley ,
Don Quichote ,
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The Author's Game ,
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Komponisten Quartett ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Shakespeare ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Die Schweiz ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Führer Quartett ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Citatenquartett ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Der Rhein ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Famous Authors ,
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Football Greats ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Merry Circus ,
In Castle Land ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Artists ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Kasco ,
Bonanza ,
Animal Quartette ,
Im Märchenland ,
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Pilze jederzeit ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
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White Squadron ,
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Robinson ,
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Geschützte Tiere ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
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Jasper Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
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Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
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The Game of Authors ,
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Fury ,
Fairy Tales ,
Autograph Authors ,
American Authors ,
Das Heer ,
Schwarzwald ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Sport-Quartett ,
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Yellowstone ,
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Indians of the Old West ,
In the White House ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
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