The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: General Mills, Catullus, Lookout Games, Kasco Mills, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Selecta Spielzeug, F.X. Schmid, Granna, Russell Manufacturing Company, Parker Brothers, Sala, Multicolor, Milton Bradley, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Walter Flechsig, Jos. Scholz, MIKA, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Otto Maier Verlag, Mulder, Erhard Neubert KG, Groneweg & Meintrup, Sage, Sons & Co., Klee, Bevink Edities, Damm / Egmont, Merrimack Publishing Corp., (Public Domain), Great American Game Company, ONKEL & ONKEL, Piatnik, AMIGO, Fireside Game Co., Tactic, McLoughlin Brothers, Nathan, Warren Built Rite Games, (Unknown), ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kaba, Volkswagen/Audi, Schmidt Spiele, G.M. Whipple, J. Bünting & Co., National Game Company, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Adolf Sala, Whitman, Jumbo, Djeco, St. Briktius, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Richard Hauenstein, Carl Werner, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, SchneiderBuch, Weltquartett, Franz Schmidt, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Glücksklee, Kultquartett, The United States Playing Card Company, I.C.C. Product, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Noris Spiele, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Schwager & Steinlein, Klipps Kaffee, Gustav Weise Verlag, Review and Herald Publishing, Cartamundi, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Cincinnati Game Co., U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Humanus-Spiele, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carlit, M. Dittert & Co, KOSMOS, Grimaud, Eurofranchising B.V., Bielefelder Spielkarten
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Fiep Westendorp, Liesel Lauterborn, Hubert Lechner, M. Neugebauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Harry Baerg, Louis Rauwolf, Klemens Franz, Barbara Henniger, Janosch, Käthe Francke, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Peter Bauer, Peyo, Harri Parschau, Heinz Jankofsky, Franz Kerka, Klaus Vonderwerth, Richard Hambach, Rolf Kauka, Manfred Bofinger, Annemarie Gramberg, Erika Leo-Urban, Anne Erler-Reichold, Willy Müller-Gera, Max Schaberschul, Uwe Rosenberg, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Erich Neubert, Erich Ohser, Hergé, Werner Ruhner, Jürgen Kieser, Werner Graichen, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Siegfried Riediger, Max Wulff, Horst Schrader, Virginijus Poshkus, Traude Schlegel, Richard Scarry, Wilhelm Busch, Delphine Durand, Heinz Osthoff, Hans de Beer, Ernst Stapelfeld, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Arnold Zenkert
Mechanics: Memory, Hand Management, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: General Mills, Catullus, Lookout Games, Kasco Mills, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Selecta Spielzeug, F.X. Schmid, Granna, Russell Manufacturing Company, Parker Brothers, Sala, Multicolor, Milton Bradley, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Walter Flechsig, Jos. Scholz, MIKA, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Otto Maier Verlag, Mulder, Erhard Neubert KG, Groneweg & Meintrup, Sage, Sons & Co., Klee, Bevink Edities, Damm / Egmont, Merrimack Publishing Corp., (Public Domain), Great American Game Company, ONKEL & ONKEL, Piatnik, AMIGO, Fireside Game Co., Tactic, McLoughlin Brothers, Nathan, Warren Built Rite Games, (Unknown), ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kaba, Volkswagen/Audi, Schmidt Spiele, G.M. Whipple, J. Bünting & Co., National Game Company, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Adolf Sala, Whitman, Jumbo, Djeco, St. Briktius, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Richard Hauenstein, Carl Werner, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, SchneiderBuch, Weltquartett, Franz Schmidt, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Glücksklee, Kultquartett, The United States Playing Card Company, I.C.C. Product, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Noris Spiele, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Schwager & Steinlein, Klipps Kaffee, Gustav Weise Verlag, Review and Herald Publishing, Cartamundi, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Cincinnati Game Co., U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Humanus-Spiele, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carlit, M. Dittert & Co, KOSMOS, Grimaud, Eurofranchising B.V., Bielefelder Spielkarten
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Fiep Westendorp, Liesel Lauterborn, Hubert Lechner, M. Neugebauer, F. W. Martin Wolff, Harry Baerg, Louis Rauwolf, Klemens Franz, Barbara Henniger, Janosch, Käthe Francke, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Peter Bauer, Peyo, Harri Parschau, Heinz Jankofsky, Franz Kerka, Klaus Vonderwerth, Richard Hambach, Rolf Kauka, Manfred Bofinger, Annemarie Gramberg, Erika Leo-Urban, Anne Erler-Reichold, Willy Müller-Gera, Max Schaberschul, Uwe Rosenberg, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Erich Neubert, Erich Ohser, Hergé, Werner Ruhner, Jürgen Kieser, Werner Graichen, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Siegfried Riediger, Max Wulff, Horst Schrader, Virginijus Poshkus, Traude Schlegel, Richard Scarry, Wilhelm Busch, Delphine Durand, Heinz Osthoff, Hans de Beer, Ernst Stapelfeld, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Arnold Zenkert
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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Schuss und Tor ,
Citatenquartett ,
Authors ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Pinocchio ,
Authors Card Game ,
Grands Rois ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Die Schweiz ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Alpenblumen ,
American Authors ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
American Women Authors ,
Autograph Authors ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Poems ,
The Great Composers ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Quartets ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Big Valley ,
Im Märchenland ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
New Testament Game ,
Artists ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Animal Quartett ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Baseball Greats ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Skippy ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Firkort ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Kasco ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Vogelwelt ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Grosswild ,
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Tom Sawyer ,
Mini Monster ,
Inventors ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Fairy Tales ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
In Castle Land ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Quartett ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
The Game of Cities ,
Allez-Hop! ,
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Game of Musical Authors ,
Game of Nations ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Tierkinder ,
Das Heer ,
Holy Land ,
The Game of Authors ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Animal Quartette ,
Scientists ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Chats Katten ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Famous Authors ,
In the White-House ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Shakespeare ,
Kwartet ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Bergwelt ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Opern Quartett ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Children's Authors ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Blumenquartett ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Märchenquartett ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Führer Quartett ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Tropical Fish ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Märchen ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Game of Artists ,
Astro Quartett ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Blühender Garten ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Tobias Taps ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Robinson ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
White Squadron ,
Composers ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Münchhausen ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Komponisten ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Famous Women ,
Der Rhein ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Presidents ,
In Castle-Land ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Flags ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
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Explorers ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Tier Quartett ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Oldtimers II ,
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Die Vogelhochzeit ,
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Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
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Great Women: Foremothers ,
The Lion King ,
Inside the White House ,
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Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Yellowstone ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Schwarzwald ,
The Author's Game ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
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Zoo Quartett ,
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Fury ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
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Don Quichote ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Zitterbacke ,
Football Greats ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
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Unter Geiern ,
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