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