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