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