The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Sala, Damm / Egmont, (Unknown), Bevink Edities, KOSMOS, M. Dittert & Co, Piatnik, Verlag Bing Werke AG, MIKA, Cartamundi, Kultquartett, SchneiderBuch, I.C.C. Product, Fireside Game Co., Mulder, Peliko Oy, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Great American Game Company, Klipps Kaffee, Djeco, ONKEL & ONKEL, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Carl Werner, Whitman, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Bielefelder Spielkarten, Volkswagen/Audi, Granna, Lookout Games, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Richard Hauenstein, Otto Maier Verlag, Franz Schmidt, Parker Brothers, Noris Spiele, Humanus-Spiele, Rudolf Forkel KG, Eurofranchising B.V., St. Briktius, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Multicolor, Russell Manufacturing Company, J. Bünting & Co., AMIGO, Warren Built Rite Games, McLoughlin Brothers, Tactic, Kasco Mills, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Glücksklee, Cincinnati Game Co., Carlit, Adolf Sala, F.X. Schmid, (Public Domain), Weltquartett, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Selecta Spielzeug, Walter Flechsig, The United States Playing Card Company, Groneweg & Meintrup, Schwager & Steinlein, Erhard Neubert KG, Kaba, Grimaud, Gustav Weise Verlag, General Mills, Klee, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Jumbo, Nathan, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Milton Bradley, Catullus, Schmidt Spiele, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Sage, Sons & Co., Jos. Scholz, Review and Herald Publishing, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, G.M. Whipple, Spear's Games, National Game Company
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Franz Kerka, Erika Leo-Urban, Horst Schrader, Peyo, Siegfried Riediger, Harry Baerg, Hans de Beer, Käthe Francke, Hergé, Richard Scarry, Heinz Osthoff, Klemens Franz, Richard Hambach, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Annemarie Gramberg, Willy Müller-Gera, Max Wulff, Wilhelm Busch, Liesel Lauterborn, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Traude Schlegel, Jürgen Kieser, M. Neugebauer, Barbara Henniger, Erich Neubert, Werner Graichen, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Max Schaberschul, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peter Bauer, Harri Parschau, Anne Erler-Reichold, F. W. Martin Wolff, Heinz Jankofsky, Ernst Stapelfeld, Manfred Bofinger, Delphine Durand, Arnold Zenkert, Fiep Westendorp, Virginijus Poshkus, Hubert Lechner, Uwe Rosenberg, Janosch, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Rolf Kauka, Werner Ruhner
Mechanics: Hand Management, Memory, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Sala, Damm / Egmont, (Unknown), Bevink Edities, KOSMOS, M. Dittert & Co, Piatnik, Verlag Bing Werke AG, MIKA, Cartamundi, Kultquartett, SchneiderBuch, I.C.C. Product, Fireside Game Co., Mulder, Peliko Oy, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Great American Game Company, Klipps Kaffee, Djeco, ONKEL & ONKEL, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Carl Werner, Whitman, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Bielefelder Spielkarten, Volkswagen/Audi, Granna, Lookout Games, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Richard Hauenstein, Otto Maier Verlag, Franz Schmidt, Parker Brothers, Noris Spiele, Humanus-Spiele, Rudolf Forkel KG, Eurofranchising B.V., St. Briktius, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Multicolor, Russell Manufacturing Company, J. Bünting & Co., AMIGO, Warren Built Rite Games, McLoughlin Brothers, Tactic, Kasco Mills, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Glücksklee, Cincinnati Game Co., Carlit, Adolf Sala, F.X. Schmid, (Public Domain), Weltquartett, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Selecta Spielzeug, Walter Flechsig, The United States Playing Card Company, Groneweg & Meintrup, Schwager & Steinlein, Erhard Neubert KG, Kaba, Grimaud, Gustav Weise Verlag, General Mills, Klee, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Jumbo, Nathan, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Milton Bradley, Catullus, Schmidt Spiele, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Sage, Sons & Co., Jos. Scholz, Review and Herald Publishing, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, G.M. Whipple, Spear's Games, National Game Company
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Franz Kerka, Erika Leo-Urban, Horst Schrader, Peyo, Siegfried Riediger, Harry Baerg, Hans de Beer, Käthe Francke, Hergé, Richard Scarry, Heinz Osthoff, Klemens Franz, Richard Hambach, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Annemarie Gramberg, Willy Müller-Gera, Max Wulff, Wilhelm Busch, Liesel Lauterborn, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Traude Schlegel, Jürgen Kieser, M. Neugebauer, Barbara Henniger, Erich Neubert, Werner Graichen, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Max Schaberschul, Klaus Vonderwerth, Peter Bauer, Harri Parschau, Anne Erler-Reichold, F. W. Martin Wolff, Heinz Jankofsky, Ernst Stapelfeld, Manfred Bofinger, Delphine Durand, Arnold Zenkert, Fiep Westendorp, Virginijus Poshkus, Hubert Lechner, Uwe Rosenberg, Janosch, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Rolf Kauka, Werner Ruhner
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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Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Kasco ,
Mini Monster ,
The Lion King ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
The Great Composers ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Alpenblumen ,
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Thierry le Fronde ,
Bergwelt ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
In the White-House ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Oldtimers II ,
New Testament Game ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Flags ,
Yellowstone ,
Famous Women ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Münchhausen ,
Neue's Componisten ,
In the White House ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Tropical Fish ,
So fängt es an... ,
Wickie ,
Tierkinder ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Citatenquartett ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Authors ,
Merry Circus ,
Composers ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Game of Artists ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Sternbilder ,
The Game of Cities ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Im Märchenland ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Deutsches Land ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Blühender Garten ,
Das Heer ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Kwartet ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Max und Moritz ,
Komponisten ,
In Castle-Land ,
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Pioneers in Medicine ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Explorers ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Authors Card Game ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Märchen ,
Don Quichote ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Inside the White House ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Children's Authors ,
American Women Authors ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Firkort ,
Game of Strange People ,
Shakespeare ,
Inventors ,
Die Schweiz ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
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Dieren Kwartet ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
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Fix & Foxi ,
Zitterbacke ,
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Autograph Authors ,
Tier Quartett ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
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Fury ,
In Castle Land ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Presidents ,
Schwarzwald ,
Scientists ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
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Tier-Quartett ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Famous Authors ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Indians of the Old West ,
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Trees and Flowers ,
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Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
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Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
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Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
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Tobias Taps ,
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Big Valley ,
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American Authors ,
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Football Greats ,
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