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