The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Parker Brothers, Piatnik, Bevink Edities, SchneiderBuch, Carlit, KOSMOS, Review and Herald Publishing, Humanus-Spiele, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Eurofranchising B.V., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Selecta Spielzeug, Erhard Neubert KG, Kaba, AMIGO, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schwager & Steinlein, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Tactic, Kasco Mills, Cartamundi, Sage, Sons & Co., Weltquartett, Granna, McLoughlin Brothers, Warren Built Rite Games, Milton Bradley, Peliko Oy, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Jumbo, Mulder, Spear's Games, Whitman, Cincinnati Game Co., I.C.C. Product, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Otto Maier Verlag, St. Briktius, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Franz Schmidt, Fireside Game Co., Lookout Games, Gustav Weise Verlag, National Game Company, General Mills, Schmidt Spiele, Sala, Great American Game Company, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Adolf Sala, Jos. Scholz, Grimaud, Russell Manufacturing Company, J. Bünting & Co., Klipps Kaffee, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Djeco, MIKA, Rudolf Forkel KG, Groneweg & Meintrup, F.X. Schmid, (Unknown), The United States Playing Card Company, (Public Domain), Multicolor, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Noris Spiele, Walter Flechsig, Kultquartett, Nathan, Volkswagen/Audi, G.M. Whipple, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Carl Werner, ONKEL & ONKEL, M. Dittert & Co, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Catullus, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Damm / Egmont, Glücksklee, Klee, Richard Hauenstein
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Manfred Bofinger, Erika Leo-Urban, Franz Kerka, Annemarie Gramberg, Liesel Lauterborn, Fiep Westendorp, Barbara Henniger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Peyo, Werner Graichen, Traude Schlegel, Hergé, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Richard Scarry, Hubert Lechner, Erich Neubert, Werner Ruhner, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, Harry Baerg, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Uwe Rosenberg, Arnold Zenkert, Klemens Franz, Delphine Durand, Heinz Jankofsky, Peter Bauer, Käthe Francke, Max Schaberschul, Harri Parschau, Heinz Osthoff, M. Neugebauer, Janosch, Hans de Beer, Jürgen Kieser, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Max Wulff, Rolf Kauka, F. W. Martin Wolff, Siegfried Riediger, Ernst Stapelfeld, Klaus Vonderwerth, Wilhelm Busch, Virginijus Poshkus
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Parker Brothers, Piatnik, Bevink Edities, SchneiderBuch, Carlit, KOSMOS, Review and Herald Publishing, Humanus-Spiele, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Eurofranchising B.V., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Selecta Spielzeug, Erhard Neubert KG, Kaba, AMIGO, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Schwager & Steinlein, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Tactic, Kasco Mills, Cartamundi, Sage, Sons & Co., Weltquartett, Granna, McLoughlin Brothers, Warren Built Rite Games, Milton Bradley, Peliko Oy, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Jumbo, Mulder, Spear's Games, Whitman, Cincinnati Game Co., I.C.C. Product, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Otto Maier Verlag, St. Briktius, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Franz Schmidt, Fireside Game Co., Lookout Games, Gustav Weise Verlag, National Game Company, General Mills, Schmidt Spiele, Sala, Great American Game Company, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Adolf Sala, Jos. Scholz, Grimaud, Russell Manufacturing Company, J. Bünting & Co., Klipps Kaffee, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Djeco, MIKA, Rudolf Forkel KG, Groneweg & Meintrup, F.X. Schmid, (Unknown), The United States Playing Card Company, (Public Domain), Multicolor, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Noris Spiele, Walter Flechsig, Kultquartett, Nathan, Volkswagen/Audi, G.M. Whipple, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Carl Werner, ONKEL & ONKEL, M. Dittert & Co, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Catullus, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Damm / Egmont, Glücksklee, Klee, Richard Hauenstein
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Manfred Bofinger, Erika Leo-Urban, Franz Kerka, Annemarie Gramberg, Liesel Lauterborn, Fiep Westendorp, Barbara Henniger, Anne Erler-Reichold, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Peyo, Werner Graichen, Traude Schlegel, Hergé, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Richard Scarry, Hubert Lechner, Erich Neubert, Werner Ruhner, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, Harry Baerg, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Uwe Rosenberg, Arnold Zenkert, Klemens Franz, Delphine Durand, Heinz Jankofsky, Peter Bauer, Käthe Francke, Max Schaberschul, Harri Parschau, Heinz Osthoff, M. Neugebauer, Janosch, Hans de Beer, Jürgen Kieser, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Max Wulff, Rolf Kauka, F. W. Martin Wolff, Siegfried Riediger, Ernst Stapelfeld, Klaus Vonderwerth, Wilhelm Busch, Virginijus Poshkus
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management, Memory
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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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Durch den Harz ,
Tobias Taps ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Disney Kwartet ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Fury ,
Max und Moritz ,
Elefanten Boy ,
The Lion King ,
Don Quichote ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Jasper Quartett ,
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Whitman 4497 ,
The Great Composers ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Schwarzwald ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Münchhausen ,
Mini Monster ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Children's Authors ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Kasco ,
In the White-House ,
Tier Quartett ,
Quartett ,
Komponisten ,
Blumenquartett ,
Tierkinder ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Fussball Quartett ,
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Merry Circus ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Yellowstone ,
Oldtimers II ,
Shakespeare ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Citatenquartett ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Scientists ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Quartets ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
The Author's Game ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Die Schweiz ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
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Trees and Flowers ,
Grands Rois ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
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Game of Nations ,
Baseball Greats ,
Flags ,
Authors ,
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Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Chats Katten ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Blühender Garten ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Sternbilder ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Im Märchenland ,
Baustile ,
Robinson ,
Poems ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
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Weidmannsheil ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
In Castle-Land ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Das Heer ,
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Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
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Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Astro Quartett ,
Animal Quartett ,
Presidents ,
In Castle Land ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
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Vogelwelt ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
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Alpenblumen ,
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Indians of the Old West ,
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The Game of Authors ,
Fix & Foxi ,
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Wickie ,
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Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
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Das Knetemännlein ,
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Zitterbacke ,
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Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
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Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
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White Squadron ,
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Türkisch 8 ,
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Schönes Österreich ,
Inventors ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett ,
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