The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Glücksklee, Kasco Mills, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carl Werner, St. Briktius, Gustav Weise Verlag, F.X. Schmid, Bevink Edities, Noris Spiele, Walter Flechsig, Schmidt Spiele, I.C.C. Product, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Djeco, Klipps Kaffee, Spear's Games, Milton Bradley, Mulder, General Mills, KOSMOS, Grimaud, Russell Manufacturing Company, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Sage, Sons & Co., McLoughlin Brothers, National Game Company, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Great American Game Company, Rudolf Forkel KG, Humanus-Spiele, (Public Domain), Review and Herald Publishing, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Kaba, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Richard Hauenstein, Whitman, Lookout Games, Catullus, Weltquartett, Kultquartett, Piatnik, Selecta Spielzeug, Erhard Neubert KG, The United States Playing Card Company, Warren Built Rite Games, Carlit, Cartamundi, MIKA, SchneiderBuch, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Multicolor, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, G.M. Whipple, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Cincinnati Game Co., Schwager & Steinlein, Jos. Scholz, Sala, Adolf Sala, Jumbo, Franz Schmidt, ONKEL & ONKEL, Nathan, (Unknown), M. Dittert & Co, Eurofranchising B.V., J. Bünting & Co., Otto Maier Verlag, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Tactic, Granna, Fireside Game Co., Klee, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Parker Brothers, Groneweg & Meintrup, AMIGO, Damm / Egmont, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Peliko Oy
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Peyo, Jürgen Kieser, Harry Baerg, Hergé, Max Schaberschul, Heinz Osthoff, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Louis Rauwolf, Manfred Bofinger, Werner Graichen, Liesel Lauterborn, Käthe Francke, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Wilhelm Busch, Richard Hambach, Annemarie Gramberg, Virginijus Poshkus, F. W. Martin Wolff, Arnold Zenkert, Rolf Kauka, Hubert Lechner, Werner Ruhner, Klemens Franz, Peter Bauer, Janosch, Barbara Henniger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Siegfried Riediger, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Jankofsky, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Anne Erler-Reichold, Erich Ohser, Hans de Beer, Erich Neubert, Horst Schrader, Erika Leo-Urban, Harri Parschau, Ernst Stapelfeld, Richard Scarry, Uwe Rosenberg, M. Neugebauer, Traude Schlegel, Willy Müller-Gera, Franz Kerka
Mechanics: Hand Management, Set Collection, Memory
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Glücksklee, Kasco Mills, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carl Werner, St. Briktius, Gustav Weise Verlag, F.X. Schmid, Bevink Edities, Noris Spiele, Walter Flechsig, Schmidt Spiele, I.C.C. Product, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Djeco, Klipps Kaffee, Spear's Games, Milton Bradley, Mulder, General Mills, KOSMOS, Grimaud, Russell Manufacturing Company, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Sage, Sons & Co., McLoughlin Brothers, National Game Company, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Great American Game Company, Rudolf Forkel KG, Humanus-Spiele, (Public Domain), Review and Herald Publishing, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Kaba, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Richard Hauenstein, Whitman, Lookout Games, Catullus, Weltquartett, Kultquartett, Piatnik, Selecta Spielzeug, Erhard Neubert KG, The United States Playing Card Company, Warren Built Rite Games, Carlit, Cartamundi, MIKA, SchneiderBuch, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Multicolor, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, G.M. Whipple, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Cincinnati Game Co., Schwager & Steinlein, Jos. Scholz, Sala, Adolf Sala, Jumbo, Franz Schmidt, ONKEL & ONKEL, Nathan, (Unknown), M. Dittert & Co, Eurofranchising B.V., J. Bünting & Co., Otto Maier Verlag, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Tactic, Granna, Fireside Game Co., Klee, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Parker Brothers, Groneweg & Meintrup, AMIGO, Damm / Egmont, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Peliko Oy
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Peyo, Jürgen Kieser, Harry Baerg, Hergé, Max Schaberschul, Heinz Osthoff, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Louis Rauwolf, Manfred Bofinger, Werner Graichen, Liesel Lauterborn, Käthe Francke, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Wilhelm Busch, Richard Hambach, Annemarie Gramberg, Virginijus Poshkus, F. W. Martin Wolff, Arnold Zenkert, Rolf Kauka, Hubert Lechner, Werner Ruhner, Klemens Franz, Peter Bauer, Janosch, Barbara Henniger, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Siegfried Riediger, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Heinz Jankofsky, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Anne Erler-Reichold, Erich Ohser, Hans de Beer, Erich Neubert, Horst Schrader, Erika Leo-Urban, Harri Parschau, Ernst Stapelfeld, Richard Scarry, Uwe Rosenberg, M. Neugebauer, Traude Schlegel, Willy Müller-Gera, Franz Kerka
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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Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Blumenquartett ,
The Great Composers ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Game of In Dixie Land ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Flags ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Richard Scarry Firkort ,
Türkisch 8 ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
In the White-House ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Outlaws of the Old West ,
Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich ,
Städte-Quartett ,
Hullunkuriset perheet ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Reuzenkwartet ,
The Game of Authors ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Bergwelt ,
Grands Rois ,
Merry Circus ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Yellowstone ,
In the White House ,
Shakespeare ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
Authors ,
Dick Bruna Kwartet ,
Allez-Hop! ,
Alpenblumen ,
Märchen Quartett ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Blühender Garten ,
Wickie ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Flower Families ,
Pinocchio ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
Das Pflanzenreich ,
Komponisten ,
Bienenleben Bienenfleiß ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
American Women Authors ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Chats Katten ,
Autograph Authors ,
In Castle-Land ,
Citatenquartett ,
Der Rhein ,
Max und Moritz ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Artists ,
Fairy Tales ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Firkort ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
The National Game of Public Men ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Don Quichote ,
Quartett ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
Tierkinder ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
So fängt es an... ,
In Castle Land ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Schweizer Heimat ,
Kwartet ,
Bünte Vogelwelt ,
Bonanza ,
Presidents ,
Münchhausen ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Game of Nations ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Deutsches Land ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Inside the White House ,
Big Valley ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Im Märchenland ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
Authors Card Game ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Game of In Dixie-Land ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Führer Quartett ,
Köpfchen muß man haben! ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett ,
7 Hühnchen ,
Game of Flowers ,
Mini Monster ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
Animal Quartette ,
Oldtimers II ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel ,
Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Märchenquartett ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
Indians of the Old West ,
Poems ,
Zitterbacke ,
Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst ,
Children's Authors ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Beautiful Switzerland ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Kleine Tierwelt ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Astro Quartett ,
Vogelwelt ,
Schönes Österreich ,
American Authors ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Märchen ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Durch den Harz ,
Kasco ,
Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Fury ,
Famous Authors ,
Scientists ,
Fokke & Sukke kwartet ,
Schwarzwald ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Am Waldessaum ,
The Author's Game ,
Robinson ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Inventors ,
Famous Women ,
Whitman 4497 ,
Baseball Greats ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
Sternbilder ,
Holy Land ,
Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett ,
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
Football Greats ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Dieren Kwartet ,
Skippy ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Mäxchen und Tüte ,
Composers ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
The Lion King ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
The Game of Cities ,
Tobias Taps ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Animal Quartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Game of Strange People ,
Kwartet z plasteliny ,
Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
Das Heer ,
Beroepen kwartet ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Tropical Fish ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Opern Quartett ,
Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit ,
Explorers ,
Baustile ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Die Schweiz ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Quartets ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Grosswild ,
New Testament Game ,
Game of Artists ,
Tier Quartett ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Astronomy ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Auf Den Spuren Lenins ,
Unter Geiern ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Trees and Flowers ,
White Squadron ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Disney Kwartet ,
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