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