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