The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: (Public Domain), Franz Schmidt, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Jumbo, St. Briktius, Review and Herald Publishing, Peliko Oy, Humanus-Spiele, Selecta Spielzeug, Erhard Neubert KG, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Glücksklee, Merrimack Publishing Corp., ONKEL & ONKEL, F.X. Schmid, Mulder, Walter Flechsig, (Unknown), ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, I.C.C. Product, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Lookout Games, Carlit, Damm / Egmont, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Parker Brothers, Schmidt Spiele, Russell Manufacturing Company, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Carl Werner, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, MIKA, M. Dittert & Co, Adolf Sala, Rudolf Forkel KG, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Djeco, Sala, Milton Bradley, Piatnik, Klipps Kaffee, Whitman, Cartamundi, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Otto Maier Verlag, Groneweg & Meintrup, Kaba, Eurofranchising B.V., National Game Company, General Mills, Kasco Mills, Granna, Bielefelder Spielkarten, SchneiderBuch, McLoughlin Brothers, Jos. Scholz, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Warren Built Rite Games, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Volkswagen/Audi, Great American Game Company, Gustav Weise Verlag, Kultquartett, Multicolor, Klee, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Cincinnati Game Co., Schwager & Steinlein, Weltquartett, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Noris Spiele, The United States Playing Card Company, Fireside Game Co., Catullus, Sage, Sons & Co., AMIGO, G.M. Whipple, Spear's Games, Nathan, Bevink Edities, Tactic, Grimaud, J. Bünting & Co., Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Richard Hauenstein, KOSMOS
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Peter Bauer, Hergé, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Osthoff, Ernst Stapelfeld, Klaus Vonderwerth, Barbara Henniger, Peyo, Janosch, Hubert Lechner, Jürgen Kieser, Heinz Jankofsky, M. Neugebauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Willy Müller-Gera, Liesel Lauterborn, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Max Schaberschul, Delphine Durand, Virginijus Poshkus, Fiep Westendorp, Siegfried Riediger, Hans de Beer, Erich Neubert, Arnold Zenkert, Richard Scarry, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Anne Erler-Reichold, Klemens Franz, Traude Schlegel, Erika Leo-Urban, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Uwe Rosenberg, Franz Kerka, Manfred Bofinger, Richard Hambach, Harri Parschau, Harry Baerg, Annemarie Gramberg, Max Wulff, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Werner Ruhner, Käthe Francke, Werner Graichen, Horst Schrader, F. W. Martin Wolff
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: (Public Domain), Franz Schmidt, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Jumbo, St. Briktius, Review and Herald Publishing, Peliko Oy, Humanus-Spiele, Selecta Spielzeug, Erhard Neubert KG, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Glücksklee, Merrimack Publishing Corp., ONKEL & ONKEL, F.X. Schmid, Mulder, Walter Flechsig, (Unknown), ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, I.C.C. Product, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Lookout Games, Carlit, Damm / Egmont, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Parker Brothers, Schmidt Spiele, Russell Manufacturing Company, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Carl Werner, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, MIKA, M. Dittert & Co, Adolf Sala, Rudolf Forkel KG, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Djeco, Sala, Milton Bradley, Piatnik, Klipps Kaffee, Whitman, Cartamundi, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Otto Maier Verlag, Groneweg & Meintrup, Kaba, Eurofranchising B.V., National Game Company, General Mills, Kasco Mills, Granna, Bielefelder Spielkarten, SchneiderBuch, McLoughlin Brothers, Jos. Scholz, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Warren Built Rite Games, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Volkswagen/Audi, Great American Game Company, Gustav Weise Verlag, Kultquartett, Multicolor, Klee, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Cincinnati Game Co., Schwager & Steinlein, Weltquartett, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Noris Spiele, The United States Playing Card Company, Fireside Game Co., Catullus, Sage, Sons & Co., AMIGO, G.M. Whipple, Spear's Games, Nathan, Bevink Edities, Tactic, Grimaud, J. Bünting & Co., Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Richard Hauenstein, KOSMOS
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Peter Bauer, Hergé, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Osthoff, Ernst Stapelfeld, Klaus Vonderwerth, Barbara Henniger, Peyo, Janosch, Hubert Lechner, Jürgen Kieser, Heinz Jankofsky, M. Neugebauer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Willy Müller-Gera, Liesel Lauterborn, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Max Schaberschul, Delphine Durand, Virginijus Poshkus, Fiep Westendorp, Siegfried Riediger, Hans de Beer, Erich Neubert, Arnold Zenkert, Richard Scarry, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Anne Erler-Reichold, Klemens Franz, Traude Schlegel, Erika Leo-Urban, Erich Ohser, Louis Rauwolf, Uwe Rosenberg, Franz Kerka, Manfred Bofinger, Richard Hambach, Harri Parschau, Harry Baerg, Annemarie Gramberg, Max Wulff, Wilhelm Busch, Rolf Kauka, Werner Ruhner, Käthe Francke, Werner Graichen, Horst Schrader, F. W. Martin Wolff
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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Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Im Märchenland ,
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Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
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Baustile ,
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Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Merry Circus ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
In the White House ,
Zitterbacke ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Schwarzwald ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Animal Quartett ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
The Lion King ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Flower Families ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
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Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Presidents ,
Trees and Flowers ,
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Tyrannen Quartett ,
Opern Quartett ,
Famous Authors ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
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Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Oldtimers II ,
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Deutsches Land ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
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Beroepen kwartet ,
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Kinderwelt Märchen ,
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Lassie Geheimnis ,
Inside the White House ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Axel und die Autos ,
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Führer Quartett ,
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Poems ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
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Unsterbliches Lachen ,
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Weidmannsheil ,
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Entdecker Der Erde ,
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White Squadron ,
Kasco ,
Das Heer ,
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