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