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