The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Sage, Sons & Co., Verlag Bing Werke AG, Warren Built Rite Games, National Game Company, Weltquartett, Parker Brothers, Damm / Egmont, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Volkswagen/Audi, Klee, SchneiderBuch, Russell Manufacturing Company, Carlit, Eurofranchising B.V., Whitman, Rudolf Forkel KG, Grimaud, General Mills, Nathan, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, The United States Playing Card Company, Franz Schmidt, (Public Domain), Sala, G.M. Whipple, J. Bünting & Co., Schmidt Spiele, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Granna, Klipps Kaffee, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Catullus, MIKA, Multicolor, Kultquartett, Adolf Sala, Mulder, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Fireside Game Co., Richard Hauenstein, Milton Bradley, F.X. Schmid, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Djeco, Cartamundi, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Kaba, Bevink Edities, Selecta Spielzeug, Otto Maier Verlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Gustav Weise Verlag, Humanus-Spiele, Piatnik, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Walter Flechsig, KOSMOS, Carl Werner, Wilder Manufacturing Co, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Groneweg & Meintrup, Glücksklee, St. Briktius, Tactic, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Review and Herald Publishing, I.C.C. Product, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Erhard Neubert KG, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Jos. Scholz, Schwager & Steinlein, McLoughlin Brothers, Cincinnati Game Co., Noris Spiele, Great American Game Company, AMIGO, Jumbo, ONKEL & ONKEL, M. Dittert & Co
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Arnold Zenkert, Klemens Franz, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Richard Hambach, Willy Müller-Gera, Heinz Jankofsky, Käthe Francke, Harri Parschau, Fiep Westendorp, Janosch, Jürgen Kieser, Rolf Kauka, Franz Kerka, Annemarie Gramberg, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Anne Erler-Reichold, Richard Scarry, Delphine Durand, Uwe Rosenberg, Barbara Henniger, Wilhelm Busch, Erich Ohser, Werner Ruhner, Harry Baerg, Liesel Lauterborn, Horst Schrader, Erika Leo-Urban, Traude Schlegel, Peter Bauer, Werner Graichen, F. W. Martin Wolff, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Hans de Beer, Virginijus Poshkus, Max Schaberschul, Hubert Lechner, Ernst Stapelfeld, Peyo, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Erich Neubert, M. Neugebauer, Louis Rauwolf, Heinz Osthoff, Hergé, Manfred Bofinger, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Sage, Sons & Co., Verlag Bing Werke AG, Warren Built Rite Games, National Game Company, Weltquartett, Parker Brothers, Damm / Egmont, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Volkswagen/Audi, Klee, SchneiderBuch, Russell Manufacturing Company, Carlit, Eurofranchising B.V., Whitman, Rudolf Forkel KG, Grimaud, General Mills, Nathan, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Kasco Mills, (Unknown), Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, The United States Playing Card Company, Franz Schmidt, (Public Domain), Sala, G.M. Whipple, J. Bünting & Co., Schmidt Spiele, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Granna, Klipps Kaffee, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Catullus, MIKA, Multicolor, Kultquartett, Adolf Sala, Mulder, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Fireside Game Co., Richard Hauenstein, Milton Bradley, F.X. Schmid, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Djeco, Cartamundi, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Lookout Games, Kaba, Bevink Edities, Selecta Spielzeug, Otto Maier Verlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Gustav Weise Verlag, Humanus-Spiele, Piatnik, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Walter Flechsig, KOSMOS, Carl Werner, Wilder Manufacturing Co, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Groneweg & Meintrup, Glücksklee, St. Briktius, Tactic, Spear's Games, Peliko Oy, Review and Herald Publishing, I.C.C. Product, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Erhard Neubert KG, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Jos. Scholz, Schwager & Steinlein, McLoughlin Brothers, Cincinnati Game Co., Noris Spiele, Great American Game Company, AMIGO, Jumbo, ONKEL & ONKEL, M. Dittert & Co
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Arnold Zenkert, Klemens Franz, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Richard Hambach, Willy Müller-Gera, Heinz Jankofsky, Käthe Francke, Harri Parschau, Fiep Westendorp, Janosch, Jürgen Kieser, Rolf Kauka, Franz Kerka, Annemarie Gramberg, Siegfried Riediger, Klaus Vonderwerth, Anne Erler-Reichold, Richard Scarry, Delphine Durand, Uwe Rosenberg, Barbara Henniger, Wilhelm Busch, Erich Ohser, Werner Ruhner, Harry Baerg, Liesel Lauterborn, Horst Schrader, Erika Leo-Urban, Traude Schlegel, Peter Bauer, Werner Graichen, F. W. Martin Wolff, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Hans de Beer, Virginijus Poshkus, Max Schaberschul, Hubert Lechner, Ernst Stapelfeld, Peyo, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Max Wulff, Erich Neubert, M. Neugebauer, Louis Rauwolf, Heinz Osthoff, Hergé, Manfred Bofinger, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer
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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Bergwelt ,
Führer Quartett ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Vater und Sohn ,
The Game of Cities ,
Yellowstone ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Famous Authors ,
Game of Artists ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Unter Geiern ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Big Valley ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Grosswild ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Shakespeare ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Game of Flowers ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Märchen ,
Skippy ,
Tier Quartett ,
So fängt es an... ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
In Castle Land ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Game of Nations ,
White Squadron ,
Football Greats ,
Bonanza ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Fury ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Zitterbacke ,
Max und Moritz ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Kwartet ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Blühender Garten ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Axel und die Autos ,
New Testament Game ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Scientists ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Alpenblumen ,
Blumenquartett ,
Inventors ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Tobias Taps ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Sternbilder ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
The Great Composers ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Autograph Authors ,
Baseball Greats ,
In the White-House ,
Tierkinder ,
Poems ,
Wickie ,
Robinson ,
Flower Families ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Mini Monster ,
The Game of Authors ,
Oldtimers II ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
American Women Authors ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Don Quichote ,
Animal Quartette ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Chats Katten ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Artists ,
Quartett ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Durch den Harz ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Presidents ,
Opern Quartett ,
Baustile ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Das Heer ,
Merry Circus ,
American Authors ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Holy Land ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Fairy Tales ,
Game of Strange People ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Animal Quartett ,
Deutsches Land ,
Grands Rois ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Sport-Quartett ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Münchhausen ,
Pinocchio ,
Authors Card Game ,
The Lion King ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
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Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Composers ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Die Schweiz ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Schönes Österreich ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Children's Authors ,
Astro Quartett ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Inside the White House ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Märchenquartett ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Astronomy ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Kasco ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
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Famous Women ,
Disney Kwartet ,
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Lawmen of the Old West ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Firkort ,
In the White House ,
Explorers ,
Authors ,
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Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
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Tier-Quartett ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
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Tropical Fish ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
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Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
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Vogelwelt ,
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Elefanten Boy ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Citatenquartett ,
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