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