The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Review and Herald Publishing, F.X. Schmid, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Rudolf Forkel KG, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Cartamundi, Walter Flechsig, St. Briktius, Erhard Neubert KG, Jumbo, Damm / Egmont, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, I.C.C. Product, Lookout Games, Nathan, Grimaud, Warren Built Rite Games, Adolf Sala, Djeco, Noris Spiele, Bevink Edities, Fireside Game Co., Spear's Games, Kasco Mills, Cincinnati Game Co., Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Tactic, SchneiderBuch, Parker Brothers, General Mills, Schmidt Spiele, Schwager & Steinlein, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Mulder, Klipps Kaffee, Klee, Granna, Glücksklee, Piatnik, Great American Game Company, (Unknown), Selecta Spel en Hobby, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Sala, Carlit, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Franz Schmidt, AMIGO, Selecta Spielzeug, Multicolor, Weltquartett, (Public Domain), Richard Hauenstein, The United States Playing Card Company, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Kultquartett, Whitman, Milton Bradley, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., M. Dittert & Co, Carl Werner, Catullus, G.M. Whipple, ONKEL & ONKEL, KOSMOS, Groneweg & Meintrup, Gustav Weise Verlag, Eurofranchising B.V., Sage, Sons & Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Peliko Oy, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, McLoughlin Brothers, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Otto Maier Verlag, J. Bünting & Co., Kaba, Jos. Scholz, Humanus-Spiele, MIKA, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, National Game Company
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: M. Neugebauer, Werner Graichen, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Willy Müller-Gera, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Richard Scarry, Max Schaberschul, Janosch, Ernst Stapelfeld, Erich Neubert, Uwe Rosenberg, Klaus Vonderwerth, Erika Leo-Urban, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Annemarie Gramberg, Peyo, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Hergé, Richard Hambach, Harry Baerg, Werner Ruhner, Franz Kerka, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Erich Ohser, Jürgen Kieser, Käthe Francke, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Horst Schrader, Fiep Westendorp, Louis Rauwolf, Heinz Jankofsky, Delphine Durand, Wilhelm Busch, Barbara Henniger, Manfred Bofinger, Arnold Zenkert, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hans de Beer, Siegfried Riediger, Virginijus Poshkus, Heinz Osthoff, Traude Schlegel, Harri Parschau, Hubert Lechner, Anne Erler-Reichold, Rolf Kauka
Mechanics: Hand Management, Memory, Set Collection
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Review and Herald Publishing, F.X. Schmid, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Rudolf Forkel KG, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Cartamundi, Walter Flechsig, St. Briktius, Erhard Neubert KG, Jumbo, Damm / Egmont, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, I.C.C. Product, Lookout Games, Nathan, Grimaud, Warren Built Rite Games, Adolf Sala, Djeco, Noris Spiele, Bevink Edities, Fireside Game Co., Spear's Games, Kasco Mills, Cincinnati Game Co., Merrimack Publishing Corp., Volkswagen/Audi, Tactic, SchneiderBuch, Parker Brothers, General Mills, Schmidt Spiele, Schwager & Steinlein, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, Mulder, Klipps Kaffee, Klee, Granna, Glücksklee, Piatnik, Great American Game Company, (Unknown), Selecta Spel en Hobby, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Sala, Carlit, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, Franz Schmidt, AMIGO, Selecta Spielzeug, Multicolor, Weltquartett, (Public Domain), Richard Hauenstein, The United States Playing Card Company, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Kultquartett, Whitman, Milton Bradley, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., M. Dittert & Co, Carl Werner, Catullus, G.M. Whipple, ONKEL & ONKEL, KOSMOS, Groneweg & Meintrup, Gustav Weise Verlag, Eurofranchising B.V., Sage, Sons & Co., Russell Manufacturing Company, Peliko Oy, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Verlag Bing Werke AG, McLoughlin Brothers, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, Otto Maier Verlag, J. Bünting & Co., Kaba, Jos. Scholz, Humanus-Spiele, MIKA, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH, National Game Company
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: M. Neugebauer, Werner Graichen, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, Willy Müller-Gera, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Richard Scarry, Max Schaberschul, Janosch, Ernst Stapelfeld, Erich Neubert, Uwe Rosenberg, Klaus Vonderwerth, Erika Leo-Urban, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Annemarie Gramberg, Peyo, Klemens Franz, Liesel Lauterborn, Hergé, Richard Hambach, Harry Baerg, Werner Ruhner, Franz Kerka, Max Wulff, Peter Bauer, Erich Ohser, Jürgen Kieser, Käthe Francke, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Horst Schrader, Fiep Westendorp, Louis Rauwolf, Heinz Jankofsky, Delphine Durand, Wilhelm Busch, Barbara Henniger, Manfred Bofinger, Arnold Zenkert, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hans de Beer, Siegfried Riediger, Virginijus Poshkus, Heinz Osthoff, Traude Schlegel, Harri Parschau, Hubert Lechner, Anne Erler-Reichold, Rolf Kauka
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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Türkisch 8 ,
Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise ,
Lawmen of the Old West ,
Seuchen Quartett ,
Kleine Flieger. Große Träume. Riesenspaß ,
Vokabel-Quartett ,
Tyrannen Quartett ,
Neue's Componisten ,
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Citatenquartett ,
Lassie Geheimnis ,
Lieder-Quartett ,
Alpenblumen ,
Alte Verkehrsmittel ,
Wickie ,
Sport-Quartett ,
Great Women: Foremothers ,
The Game of Great Artists ,
Authors of the Forty Best Children's Books ,
Holy Land ,
Deutsches Land ,
Kinderlieder-Quartett ,
Schöne Deutsche Heimat ,
Firkort ,
Illustrated Mythology Game ,
Bonanza ,
Thierry le Fronde ,
Illustrated Mythology ,
Der Rhein ,
Das Knetemännlein ,
Baseball Greats ,
Pilze jederzeit ,
Blumenquartett ,
Grosswild ,
Explorers ,
So fängt es an... ,
Die Vogelhochzeit ,
Schlumpf Quartett ,
Mini Monster ,
Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) ,
The Lion King ,
Führer Quartett ,
Bettsport-Quartett ,
White Squadron ,
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Authors ,
New Testament Game Illustrated ,
Famous Women ,
Axel und die Autos ,
Funday Cartoons Card Game ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Agricola Quartett ,
Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt ,
New Testament Game ,
Die Schweiz ,
Astro Quartett ,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ,
Tier-Quartett ,
Authors Card Game ,
Blumen-Quartett ,
Football Greats ,
Dieren Kwartet Spel ,
Inside the White House ,
Flags ,
Entdecker Der Erde ,
Heißner Blumen Quartett ,
Sesamstraat kwartet ,
Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz ,
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Schwarzwald ,
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The Great Composers ,
Flower Families ,
Kinderwelt Tiermärchen ,
In Castle Land ,
Kasco ,
Am Waldessaum ,
Animal Quartette ,
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Oldtimers II ,
American Authors ,
Bergwelt ,
Schuss und Tor ,
Trees and Flowers ,
Chats Katten ,
Skippy ,
Im Märchenland ,
In the White House ,
Internationaal Stedenkwartet ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Sternbilder ,
The Author's Game ,
Briefmarken-Quartett ,
Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet ,
Donald im Zirkus ,
Märchen-Sammelquartett ,
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Das Fröhliche Jahr ,
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Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 ,
Max und Moritz ,
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7 Hühnchen ,
Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett ,
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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 ,
Durch den Harz ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Märchenquartett ,
Alles Glück mit Glücksklee ,
Weidmannsheil ,
Blumen Quartett ,
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Game of Yellowstone ,
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Deutsche Märchen ,
Merry Circus ,
Fairy Tales ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
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Vater und Sohn ,
Rekorde im Tierreich ,
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Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes ,
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