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