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