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