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