The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Jos. Scholz, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Great American Game Company, Humanus-Spiele, Sage, Sons & Co., Sala, Nathan, Cartamundi, Milton Bradley, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, SchneiderBuch, Peliko Oy, Klipps Kaffee, MIKA, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, M. Dittert & Co, G.M. Whipple, Kasco Mills, Parker Brothers, Adolf Sala, Granna, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Review and Herald Publishing, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schmidt Spiele, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Schüle-Hohenlohe, Spear's Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, (Unknown), Russell Manufacturing Company, Erhard Neubert KG, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Tactic, Selecta Spielzeug, Volkswagen/Audi, Bevink Edities, St. Briktius, Whitman, ONKEL & ONKEL, Damm / Egmont, Grimaud, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, KOSMOS, Klee, McLoughlin Brothers, Warren Built Rite Games, General Mills, Noris Spiele, Eurofranchising B.V., Carlit, Schwager & Steinlein, Franz Schmidt, I.C.C. Product, Multicolor, Glücksklee, Walter Flechsig, Rudolf Forkel KG, Richard Hauenstein, Gustav Weise Verlag, Lookout Games, Carl Werner, The United States Playing Card Company, Otto Maier Verlag, Kultquartett, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Catullus, Cincinnati Game Co., AMIGO, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Djeco, Groneweg & Meintrup, F.X. Schmid, (Public Domain), Fireside Game Co., National Game Company, Piatnik, Jumbo, Mulder, J. Bünting & Co., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Kaba, Weltquartett
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Siegfried Riediger, Max Schaberschul, Horst Schrader, Klemens Franz, Richard Scarry, Barbara Henniger, Annemarie Gramberg, M. Neugebauer, Ernst Stapelfeld, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Käthe Francke, Janosch, Harri Parschau, Heinz Jankofsky, Erika Leo-Urban, Virginijus Poshkus, Heinz Osthoff, Jürgen Kieser, Erich Ohser, Arnold Zenkert, Traude Schlegel, Hans de Beer, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harry Baerg, Rolf Kauka, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hubert Lechner, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Louis Rauwolf, Richard Hambach, Manfred Bofinger, Wilhelm Busch, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Erich Neubert, Franz Kerka, Delphine Durand, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Peyo, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Liesel Lauterborn, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hergé, Uwe Rosenberg, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Willy Müller-Gera
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Jos. Scholz, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Great American Game Company, Humanus-Spiele, Sage, Sons & Co., Sala, Nathan, Cartamundi, Milton Bradley, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, SchneiderBuch, Peliko Oy, Klipps Kaffee, MIKA, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, M. Dittert & Co, G.M. Whipple, Kasco Mills, Parker Brothers, Adolf Sala, Granna, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Review and Herald Publishing, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schmidt Spiele, Merrimack Publishing Corp., Schüle-Hohenlohe, Spear's Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, (Unknown), Russell Manufacturing Company, Erhard Neubert KG, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Tactic, Selecta Spielzeug, Volkswagen/Audi, Bevink Edities, St. Briktius, Whitman, ONKEL & ONKEL, Damm / Egmont, Grimaud, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, KOSMOS, Klee, McLoughlin Brothers, Warren Built Rite Games, General Mills, Noris Spiele, Eurofranchising B.V., Carlit, Schwager & Steinlein, Franz Schmidt, I.C.C. Product, Multicolor, Glücksklee, Walter Flechsig, Rudolf Forkel KG, Richard Hauenstein, Gustav Weise Verlag, Lookout Games, Carl Werner, The United States Playing Card Company, Otto Maier Verlag, Kultquartett, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Catullus, Cincinnati Game Co., AMIGO, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Djeco, Groneweg & Meintrup, F.X. Schmid, (Public Domain), Fireside Game Co., National Game Company, Piatnik, Jumbo, Mulder, J. Bünting & Co., Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, Kaba, Weltquartett
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Siegfried Riediger, Max Schaberschul, Horst Schrader, Klemens Franz, Richard Scarry, Barbara Henniger, Annemarie Gramberg, M. Neugebauer, Ernst Stapelfeld, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Käthe Francke, Janosch, Harri Parschau, Heinz Jankofsky, Erika Leo-Urban, Virginijus Poshkus, Heinz Osthoff, Jürgen Kieser, Erich Ohser, Arnold Zenkert, Traude Schlegel, Hans de Beer, Anne Erler-Reichold, Harry Baerg, Rolf Kauka, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hubert Lechner, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Louis Rauwolf, Richard Hambach, Manfred Bofinger, Wilhelm Busch, Fiep Westendorp, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Erich Neubert, Franz Kerka, Delphine Durand, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Peyo, Werner Graichen, Werner Ruhner, Liesel Lauterborn, Klaus Vonderwerth, Hergé, Uwe Rosenberg, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Willy Müller-Gera
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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Presidents ,
In Castle Land ,
Zoo Quartett ,
Blumenquartett ,
Neue's Componisten ,
Game of Flowers ,
The Author's Game ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
Fury ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Fairy Tales ,
Aus nah und fern ,
Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Kuifje Kwartet ,
Mit graf Zeppelin um die Erde ,
Das Heer ,
Neues Komponisten Quartett ,
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass ,
Alpenblumen ,
Robinson ,
Die Schweiz ,
Unser Sternenhimmel ,
Merry Circus ,
Authors ,
Around the World with the "Graf Zeppelin" ,
Mini Monster ,
In Castle-Land ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
The Lion King ,
Citatenquartett ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Zitterbacke ,
Spiel der Schmetterlinge ,
Deutsche Märchen ,
Holy Land ,
Famous Generals of the Civil War ,
A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel ,
Famous Authors ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Autograph Authors ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Animal Quartett ,
Vogelwelt ,
Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe ,
Baseball Greats ,
Deutschlands große Söhne ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
Fairy-Tale Playing Cards ,
Märchen-Quartett ,
Deutsches Land ,
American Women Authors ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Kaba der Plantagentrank ,
Big Valley ,
Opern Komponisten ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Fix & Foxi ,
Heidi Kehrt Heim ,
Dealings with Dickens or a Battle with Boz ,
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Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Flower Families ,
Tierkinder ,
Les Grands Hommes de France ,
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Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Elefanten Boy ,
Pinocchio ,
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Indians of the Old West ,
Geschützte Tiere ,
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
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Unter Geiern ,
Fussball Quartett ,
Fipps der Affe ,
Heilkräuter-Quartett ,
Vater und Sohn ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Tom Sawyer ,
Kaba Disney Quartett ,
Blüten am Wegesrand ,
The Game of Cities ,
Max und Moritz ,
Game of Poems Illustrated ,
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Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Shakespeare ,
American Authors ,
Sternbilder ,
Oldtimers II ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Durch den Harz ,
In the White-House ,
Quartets ,
Football Greats ,
Dichter-Quartett ,
Game of Nations ,
Baustile ,
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Explorers ,
Gulliver im Land der Riesen ,
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Tiere in Feld und Aus ,
Blumen Quartett ,
Erstes Bilderquartett ,
Komponisten Quartett ,
Vogelhochzeit-Quartett ,
Unsterbliches Lachen ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Zoo-Quartett ,
Allez-Hop! ,
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Tropical Fish ,
Game of Yellowstone ,
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Illustrated Mythology ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
Jasper Quartett ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
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Blumen-Quartett ,
Pioneers in Medicine ,
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Führer Quartett ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
Astronomy ,
Im Märchenland ,
Famous Women ,
Authors Card Game ,
Blühender Garten ,
Children's Authors ,
Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit ,
Ghostbusters Quartett ,
Inside the White House ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 ,
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Indian Chiefs of the Old West ,
Wickie ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
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Yellowstone ,
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New Testament Game ,
Frontiersmen of the Old West ,
Kasco ,
The Four Cars Game ,
Janosch Kwartet ,
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Astro Quartett ,
Game of Artists ,
The Game of Authors ,
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Trees and Flowers ,
Buchstaben Quartett ,
The Great Composers ,
Tobias Taps ,
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Bergwelt ,
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Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
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