The Game of Authors
1861
BGG Geek Rating
5.4
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BGG Average Rating
4.6
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#29301
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Players
2-6
Weight
1.03/5.00
Playtime
15 min
Age
7+
⚙️ Mécaniques de jeux
How this game works - core systems and player actions
🎨 Artists
Anne Erler-Reichold
Annemarie Gramberg
Arnold Zenkert
Barbara Henniger
Delphine Durand
Erich Neubert
Erich Ohser
Erika Leo-Urban
Ernst Stapelfeld
F. W. Martin Wolff
Fiep Westendorp
Franz Kerka
Hans de Beer
Harri Parschau
Harry Baerg
Heinz Jankofsky
Heinz Osthoff
Hergé
Horst Schrader
Hubert Lechner
Janosch
Jürgen Kieser
Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer
Klaus Vonderwerth
Klemens Franz
Käthe Francke
Liesel Lauterborn
Louis Rauwolf
M. Neugebauer
Manfred Bofinger
Max Schaberschul
Max Wulff
Peter Bauer
Peyo
Regine Grube-Heinecke
Richard Hambach
Richard Scarry
Rolf Kauka
Rudolf Engel-Hardt
Siegfried Riediger
Sybo de Geus
Traude Schlegel
Uwe Rosenberg
Virginijus Poshkus
W Wilhelmsmeyer
Werner Graichen
Werner Ruhner
Wilhelm Busch
Willy Müller-Gera
🏢 Publishers
Adolf Sala
AMIGO
ASS Altenburger Spielkarten
Bevink Edities
Bielefelder Spielkarten
Birkel Teigwaren GmbH
Carl Werner
Carlit
Cartamundi
Catullus
Cincinnati Game Co.
Djeco
E. E. Fairchild Corporation
Efteling
Erhard Neubert KG
Eurofranchising B.V.
F.X. Schmid
Fireside Game Co.
Franz Schmidt
G.M. Whipple
General Mills
Glücksklee
Granna
Great American Game Company
Grimaud
Groneweg & Meintrup
Gustav Weise Verlag
H. P. Gibson & Sons
Helingsche Verlagsanstalt
Humanus-Spiele
I.C.C. Product
J. Bünting & Co.
Jos. Scholz
Jumbo
Kaba
Kasco Mills
Klee
Klipps Kaffee
KOSMOS
Kosmos Uitgevers
Kultquartett
Kuvataide
Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt
Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag
Lookout Games
M. Dittert & Co
McLoughlin Brothers
Merrimack Publishing Corp.
MIKA
Milton Bradley
Mulder
Multicolor
N.W. Damm & Søn (Damm)
Nathan
National Game Company
Noris Spiele
ONKEL & ONKEL
Otto Maier Verlag
Parker Brothers
Peliko Oy
Piatnik
(Public Domain)
Review and Herald Publishing
Richard Hauenstein
Rudolf Forkel KG
Russell Manufacturing Company
Sala
Schmidt Spiele
SchneiderBuch
Schwager & Steinlein
Schüle-Hohenlohe
Selecta Spel en Hobby
Selecta Spielzeug
Spear's Games
St. Benno-Verlag GmbH
St. Briktius
Tactic
The United States Playing Card Company
(Unknown)
VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg
Verlag Bing Werke AG
Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck
Volkswagen/Audi
Walter Flechsig
Warren Built Rite Games
Weltquartett
Whitman
Wilder Manufacturing Co
📖 About This Game
Traduire
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.