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