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