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