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1861
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3 − 6
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Primary Name
The Game of Authors
Alternate Names
American Authors
American Women Authors
Artists
Authors
Authors
Authors Card Game
Baseball Greats
Children's Authors
Composers
Dick Bruna Kwartet
Disney Kwartet
Explorers
Famous Authors
Famous Generals of the Civil War
Famous Women
Firkort
Flags of the Civil War
Football Greats
Frontiersmen of the Old West
Game of In Dixie Land
Hullunkuriset perheet
In Castle-Land
Indians of the Old West
Inventors
Kuifje Kwartet
Kwartet
Lawmen of the Old West
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Musta-Pekka
The National Game of Public Men
Outlaws of the Old West
Pioneers in Medicine
Presidents
Presidents
Quartets, Happy Families
Quartett
Reuzenkwartet
Richard Scarry Firkort
Scientists
Sesamstraat kwartet
Super Mario Bros. Kwartet
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Families
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Ancestor of Go Fish, 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.

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Authors - Ancestor of Go Fish, 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.

Happy Families - This British version of the game is played with a special pack of 44 cards depicting the mother, father, son and daughter of eleven families. Everyone contributes equally to a pool, all the cards are dealt, and the player to dealer's left begins. The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card; the asker must already hold at least one card of the same family. If the player asked has the card it must be handed over and the asker continues by asking the same or another player for another card. If the asked player does not have the wanted card they say "not at home" and the turn passes to them. Completed families are placed face down in front of the owner. When all families are complete, the player with most wins half the pool.

The game then continues into a second phase, in which players ask for complete families. The winner of the first phase begins, and the player who manages to accumulate all eleven families wins the second half of the pool.

Some play a version in which a player asking for a card must say "please", and a player receiving a card must say "thank you". Anyone who forgets to do this must give back the requested card (if it has been handed over) and the turn passes to the player they were asking.

Quartet - 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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