The Game of Authors (1861)
Playtime: 15
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Parker Brothers, Carlit, Spear's Games, Jos. Scholz, Warren Built Rite Games, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Selecta Spielzeug, Whitman, McLoughlin Brothers, Franz Schmidt, Noris Spiele, G.M. Whipple, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Groneweg & Meintrup, Fireside Game Co., Djeco, Glücksklee, Tactic, Eurofranchising B.V., Mulder, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Klipps Kaffee, Milton Bradley, Kultquartett, MIKA, ONKEL & ONKEL, Rudolf Forkel KG, Erhard Neubert KG, Bevink Edities, National Game Company, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, M. Dittert & Co, Grimaud, J. Bünting & Co., Volkswagen/Audi, Klee, The United States Playing Card Company, Jumbo, Cartamundi, Walter Flechsig, Piatnik, Cincinnati Game Co., Humanus-Spiele, Lookout Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, H. P. Gibson & Sons, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Carl Werner, Gustav Weise Verlag, Sala, SchneiderBuch, Adolf Sala, Russell Manufacturing Company, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Kaba, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Multicolor, Richard Hauenstein, KOSMOS, AMIGO, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Peliko Oy, (Public Domain), Nathan, Damm / Egmont, I.C.C. Product, Catullus, Kasco Mills, Granna, Otto Maier Verlag, F.X. Schmid, Weltquartett, Schmidt Spiele, Great American Game Company, Merrimack Publishing Corp., (Unknown), Review and Herald Publishing, Schwager & Steinlein, St. Briktius, Sage, Sons & Co., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, General Mills, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Manfred Bofinger, Uwe Rosenberg, Erich Neubert, Franz Kerka, Siegfried Riediger, Traude Schlegel, Harry Baerg, Richard Scarry, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, M. Neugebauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Hubert Lechner, Annemarie Gramberg, Harri Parschau, Anne Erler-Reichold, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Käthe Francke, Heinz Osthoff, Rolf Kauka, Werner Graichen, Fiep Westendorp, Peter Bauer, Peyo, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hans de Beer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Erich Ohser, Max Schaberschul, Ernst Stapelfeld, Liesel Lauterborn, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Wilhelm Busch, Klemens Franz, Arnold Zenkert, Hergé, Jürgen Kieser, Erika Leo-Urban, Janosch, Louis Rauwolf, Werner Ruhner, Barbara Henniger, Max Wulff, Heinz Jankofsky, Virginijus Poshkus
Mechanics: Set Collection, Memory, Hand Management
Min. Age: 7
Players: 2 - 6
Publisher: Parker Brothers, Carlit, Spear's Games, Jos. Scholz, Warren Built Rite Games, Helingsche Verlagsanstalt, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Selecta Spielzeug, Whitman, McLoughlin Brothers, Franz Schmidt, Noris Spiele, G.M. Whipple, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Groneweg & Meintrup, Fireside Game Co., Djeco, Glücksklee, Tactic, Eurofranchising B.V., Mulder, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Klipps Kaffee, Milton Bradley, Kultquartett, MIKA, ONKEL & ONKEL, Rudolf Forkel KG, Erhard Neubert KG, Bevink Edities, National Game Company, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, M. Dittert & Co, Grimaud, J. Bünting & Co., Volkswagen/Audi, Klee, The United States Playing Card Company, Jumbo, Cartamundi, Walter Flechsig, Piatnik, Cincinnati Game Co., Humanus-Spiele, Lookout Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, H. P. Gibson & Sons, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Carl Werner, Gustav Weise Verlag, Sala, SchneiderBuch, Adolf Sala, Russell Manufacturing Company, Schüle-Hohenlohe, Kaba, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Multicolor, Richard Hauenstein, KOSMOS, AMIGO, Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt, Peliko Oy, (Public Domain), Nathan, Damm / Egmont, I.C.C. Product, Catullus, Kasco Mills, Granna, Otto Maier Verlag, F.X. Schmid, Weltquartett, Schmidt Spiele, Great American Game Company, Merrimack Publishing Corp., (Unknown), Review and Herald Publishing, Schwager & Steinlein, St. Briktius, Sage, Sons & Co., St. Benno-Verlag GmbH, Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck, General Mills, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH
Designers: Anne W. Abbott
Artists: Manfred Bofinger, Uwe Rosenberg, Erich Neubert, Franz Kerka, Siegfried Riediger, Traude Schlegel, Harry Baerg, Richard Scarry, Rudolf Engel-Hardt, M. Neugebauer, Willy Müller-Gera, Hubert Lechner, Annemarie Gramberg, Harri Parschau, Anne Erler-Reichold, Klaus Vonderwerth, Delphine Durand, Horst Schrader, Richard Hambach, W Wilhelmsmeyer, Käthe Francke, Heinz Osthoff, Rolf Kauka, Werner Graichen, Fiep Westendorp, Peter Bauer, Peyo, F. W. Martin Wolff, Hans de Beer, Regine Grube-Heinecke, Erich Ohser, Max Schaberschul, Ernst Stapelfeld, Liesel Lauterborn, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Wilhelm Busch, Klemens Franz, Arnold Zenkert, Hergé, Jürgen Kieser, Erika Leo-Urban, Janosch, Louis Rauwolf, Werner Ruhner, Barbara Henniger, Max Wulff, Heinz Jankofsky, Virginijus Poshkus
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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Citatenquartett ,
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Game of Nations ,
Explorers ,
Schönes Deutschland ,
Bergwelt ,
Kunterbunt Quartett ,
Game of Musical Authors ,
Flags of the Civil War ,
Cocoa Puffs edition ,
Kinderwelt Märchen ,
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Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated ,
Whitman 4497 ,
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Game of In Dixie-Land ,
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