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