The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: The United States Playing Card Company, Granna, Selecta Spielzeug, Carl Werner, Whitman, Kultquartett, Djeco, Glücksklee, Otto Maier Verlag, Groneweg & Meintrup, (Public Domain), Klee, (Unknown), Nathan, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kasco Mills, Erhard Neubert KG, St. Briktius, F.X. Schmid, ONKEL & ONKEL, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Tactic, Mulder, Fireside Game Co., Parker Brothers, Damm / Egmont, Peliko Oy, McLoughlin Brothers, Warren Built Rite Games, Humanus-Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Sage, Sons & Co., Merrimack Publishing Corp., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Sala, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, SchneiderBuch, Walter Flechsig, General Mills, MIKA, Review and Herald Publishing, Jumbo, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Grimaud, Catullus, Volkswagen/Audi, Gustav Weise Verlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Adolf Sala, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Multicolor, AMIGO, Franz Schmidt, Noris Spiele, Cartamundi, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Kaba, Lookout Games, Bevink Edities, Piatnik, Great American Game Company, Schwager & Steinlein, Spear's Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Carlit, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Eurofranchising B.V., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., KOSMOS, Schmidt Spiele, J. Bünting & Co., Richard Hauenstein, Cincinnati Game Co., Weltquartett, National Game Company, Russell Manufacturing Company, Milton Bradley, G.M. Whipple, Jos. Scholz, M. Dittert & Co, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, I.C.C. Product
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Heinz Osthoff, Barbara Henniger, Max Schaberschul, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Arnold Zenkert, Klemens Franz, Janosch, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Erika Leo-Urban, M. Neugebauer, Werner Graichen, Annemarie Gramberg, Franz Kerka, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Manfred Bofinger, Harry Baerg, Peyo, Hubert Lechner, Richard Hambach, Erich Neubert, Heinz Jankofsky, Anne Erler-Reichold, Liesel Lauterborn, Delphine Durand, Klaus Vonderwerth, Virginijus Poshkus, Horst Schrader, Ernst Stapelfeld, Harri Parschau, Wilhelm Busch, Peter Bauer, Rolf Kauka, F. W. Martin Wolff, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Willy Müller-Gera, Käthe Francke, Louis Rauwolf, Jürgen Kieser, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Erich Ohser, Werner Ruhner, Hans de Beer, Uwe Rosenberg, Richard Scarry, Traude Schlegel, Hergé, Siegfried Riediger
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: The United States Playing Card Company, Granna, Selecta Spielzeug, Carl Werner, Whitman, Kultquartett, Djeco, Glücksklee, Otto Maier Verlag, Groneweg & Meintrup, (Public Domain), Klee, (Unknown), Nathan, Rudolf Forkel KG, Kasco Mills, Erhard Neubert KG, St. Briktius, F.X. Schmid, ONKEL & ONKEL, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Tactic, Mulder, Fireside Game Co., Parker Brothers, Damm / Egmont, Peliko Oy, McLoughlin Brothers, Warren Built Rite Games, Humanus-Spiele, Klipps Kaffee, Sage, Sons & Co., Merrimack Publishing Corp., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Sala, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, SchneiderBuch, Walter Flechsig, General Mills, MIKA, Review and Herald Publishing, Jumbo, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Grimaud, Catullus, Volkswagen/Audi, Gustav Weise Verlag, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Adolf Sala, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Multicolor, AMIGO, Franz Schmidt, Noris Spiele, Cartamundi, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Kaba, Lookout Games, Bevink Edities, Piatnik, Great American Game Company, Schwager & Steinlein, Spear's Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Carlit, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Eurofranchising B.V., Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., KOSMOS, Schmidt Spiele, J. Bünting & Co., Richard Hauenstein, Cincinnati Game Co., Weltquartett, National Game Company, Russell Manufacturing Company, Milton Bradley, G.M. Whipple, Jos. Scholz, M. Dittert & Co, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, I.C.C. Product
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Heinz Osthoff, Barbara Henniger, Max Schaberschul, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Arnold Zenkert, Klemens Franz, Janosch, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Erika Leo-Urban, M. Neugebauer, Werner Graichen, Annemarie Gramberg, Franz Kerka, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Manfred Bofinger, Harry Baerg, Peyo, Hubert Lechner, Richard Hambach, Erich Neubert, Heinz Jankofsky, Anne Erler-Reichold, Liesel Lauterborn, Delphine Durand, Klaus Vonderwerth, Virginijus Poshkus, Horst Schrader, Ernst Stapelfeld, Harri Parschau, Wilhelm Busch, Peter Bauer, Rolf Kauka, F. W. Martin Wolff, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Willy Müller-Gera, Käthe Francke, Louis Rauwolf, Jürgen Kieser, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Erich Ohser, Werner Ruhner, Hans de Beer, Uwe Rosenberg, Richard Scarry, Traude Schlegel, Hergé, Siegfried Riediger
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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Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Football Greats ,
Flower Families ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Artists ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Schwarzwald ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Die Schweiz ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
White Squadron ,
Blühender Garten ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Holy Land ,
In the White-House ,
Disney Kwartet ,
The Game of Cities ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
The Author's Game ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Game of Artists ,
Scientists ,
Grosswild ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Don Quichote ,
Komponisten ,
In Castle Land ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
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Blumen Quartett ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Children's Authors ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Sternbilder ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
The Lion King ,
Opern Quartett ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Composers ,
Famous Authors ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
American Women Authors ,
Robinson ,
Fury ,
In the White House ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Chats Katten ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Animal Quartette ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
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Kasco ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
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Wickie ,
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Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
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Mini Monster ,
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Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Sport-Quartett ,
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Märchen-Quartett ,
Flags ,
Grands Rois ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
New Testament Game ,
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Ghostbusters Quartett ,
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Schönes Österreich ,
Das Heer ,
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Münchhausen ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Yellowstone ,
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Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Tier Quartett ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Märchen ,
Astro Quartett ,
Oldtimers II ,
Zitterbacke ,
Pinocchio ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Indians of the Old West ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Am Waldessaum ,
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Tropical Fish ,
American Authors ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
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Fix & Foxi ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Fipps der Affe ,
In Castle-Land ,
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Autograph Authors ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Zoo Quartett ,
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Elefanten Boy ,
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Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
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Trees and Flowers ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
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Unter Geiern ,
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Astronomy ,
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Vater und Sohn ,
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Skippy ,
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Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
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Citatenquartett ,
Märchenquartett ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Game of Flowers ,
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Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Game of Nations ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
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