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