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