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