Designer	Anne W. Abbott
Artist	Manfred Bofinger Wilhelm Busch Erich Neubert Erich Ohser Anne Erler-Reichold Ernst Stapelfeld Klemens Franz Franz Kerka Annemarie Gramberg Richard Hambach Harri Parschau Barbara Henniger Hergé Horst Schrader Heinz Jankofsky Janosch Käthe Francke Rolf Kauka Jürgen Kieser Klaus Vonderwerth Max Schaberschul Max Wulff M. Neugebauer Peter Bauer Peyo Virginijus Poshkus Louis Rauwolf Regine Grube-Heinecke Rudolf Engel-Hardt Werner Ruhner Richard Scarry Traude Schlegel Werner Graichen Show More »
Publisher	(Unknown) All-Fair Toys and Games ASS (Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken) Bevink Edities Bielefelder Spielkarten Birkel Teigwaren GmbH Carl Werner Carlit Cartamundi Catullus Cincinnati Game Co. Damm / Egmont E. E. Fairchild Corporation Erhard Neubert KG Ferd. Piatnik & Sohne, Wien Fireside Game Co. Franz Schmidt FX Schmid G.M. Whipple Glücksklee Granna Grimaud Groneweg & Meintrup Gustav Weise Verlag Helingsche Verlagsanstalt Humanus-Spiele J. Bünting & Co. Jos. Scholz Jumbo Kaba Kasco Mills Klee Klipps Kaffee Kosmos Kultquartett Lederbogen Karl-Marx-Stadt Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag Lookout Games M. Dittert & Co McLoughlin Brothers Merrimack Publishing Corp. MIKA Milton Bradley Multicolor Nathan Noris Spiele ONKEL & ONKEL Parker Brothers Piatnik Ravensburger Richard Hauenstein Rudolf Forkel KG Russell Manufacturing Company Schmidt Spiele Schneiderbuch Schüle-Hohenlohe Schwager & Steinlein Selecta Spel en Hobby Selecta Spielzeug Spear's Games St. Benno-Verlag GmbH St. Briktius Tactic U.S. Games Systems, Inc. The United States Playing Card Company VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg Verlag für Lehrmittel Pössneck Walter Flechsig Weltquartett Whitman Show More »
Year Published	1861
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
Mfg Suggested Ages	7 and up
User Suggested Ages	4 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain	Children's Games (5 voters) [vote]
Category	American West Animals Card Game Educational Memory Movies / TV / Radio theme Music Novel-based Trivia Show More »
Mechanic	Hand Management Memory Set Collection
Expansion
Expands
Family	Country: Austria Country: Germany Country: Switzerland My Secret Unicorn Promotional Board Games Walt Disney Show More »
Primary Name	The Game of Authors
Alternate Names	7 Hühnchen 7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel Agricola Quartett Aktiv, Gesund, Glücklich Ald Frysk Kwartet Alfons Zitterbacke Quartett Alles Glück mit Glücksklee Allez-Hop! Alpenblumen Am Waldessaum American Authors American Women Authors Artists Astro Quartett Astronomy Auf Den Spuren Lenins Aus nah und fern Aus Tropenglut und Meerestiefe Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Authors Authors Card Game Autograph Authors Axel und die Autos Baseball Greats Baustile Beautiful Switzerland Benelux Kwartet Bergwelt Beroepen kwartet Bettsport-Quartett Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated Big Valley Blühender Garten Blumen-Quartett Blumenquartett Blüten am Wegesrand Bonanza Briefmarken-Quartett Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 4 Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5 Buchstaben Quartett Bünte Vogelwelt Children's Authors Citatenquartett Composers Deutsche Märchen Deutsches Land Deutschlands große Söhne Dichter-Quartett Dick Bruna Kwartet Dieren Kwartet Dieren Kwartet Spel Disney Kwartet Don Quichote Donald im Zirkus Durch den Harz Elefanten Boy Entdecker Der Erde Erstes Bilderquartett Explorers Fairy-Tale Playing Cards Famous Authors Famous Generals of the Civil War Famous Women Firkort Fix & Foxi Flags of the Civil War Fokke & Sukke kwartet Football Greats Das Fröhliche Jahr Frontiersmen of the Old West Führer Quartett Fury Fussball Quartett Game of Artists Game of Flowers Game of In Dixie Land Game of In Dixie-Land Game of Musical Authors Game of Nations Game of Poems Illustrated Game of Strange People Game of Yellowstone Geschützte Tiere Ghostbusters Quartett Les Grands Hommes de France Grosswild Gulliver im Land der Riesen Das Heer Heidi Kehrt Heim Heilkräuter-Quartett Heißner Blumen Quartett High Speed Holy Land Hullunkuriset perheet Illustrated Mythology Illustrated Mythology Game Im Märchenland In Castle Land In Castle-Land In the White House Indian Chiefs of the Old West Indians of the Old West Inside the White House Internationaal Stedenkwartet Inventors Janosch Kwartet Kasco Die Kinder vom Wolkenplatz Kinderlieder-Quartett Kinderwelt Märchen Kinderwelt Tiermärchen Das Knetemännlein Komponisten Quartett Köpfchen muß man haben! Kuifje Kwartet Kunterbunt Quartett Kwartet Kwartet z plasteliny Lassie Geheimnis Lawmen of the Old West Les Tableaux Célèbres (France) Lese-Quartett Nr. 1 The Lion King Der Lohn des Fleisses Die Strafe der Faulheit Lustiges Wilhelm Busch Quartett Das Mallorca-Party-Quartett Märchen Märchen Quartett Märchen-Quartett Märchen-Quartett Märchen-Sammelquartett Märchenquartett Max und Moritz Mäxchen Pfiffigs Abenteuer Mäxchen und Tüte Meister Nadelöhrs Ferienreise Merry Circus Mit Kapitän Pitt durch die bunte Welt Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Münchhausen Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit The National Game of Public Men Neue's Componisten New Testament Game New Testament Game Illustrated Oldtimers II Opern Komponisten Opern Quartett Outlaws of the Old West Pilze jederzeit Pinocchio Pioneers in Medicine Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet Presidents Quartets Quartett Rekorde im Tierreich Reuzenkwartet Der Rhein Richard Scarry Firkort Robinson Schlumpf Quartett Schöne Deutsche Heimat Schönes Deutschland Schönes Österreich Schönste Deutsche Dichtkunst Schuss und Tor Schwarzwald Die Schweiz Schweizer Heimat Scientists Sesamstraat kwartet Seuchen Quartett Shakespeare Skippy So fängt es an... Spiel der Schmetterlinge Sprookjes Kwartet Städte-Quartett Sternbilder Super Mario Bros. Kwartet Thierry le Fronde Tier Quartett Tier-Quartett Tiere in Feld und Aus Tierkinder Tobias Taps Tom Sawyer Trolls Kwartet Türkisch 8 Tyrannen Quartett Unsterbliches Lachen Unter Geiern Vater und Sohn Die Vogelhochzeit Vogelhochzeit-Quartett Vogelwelt Vokabel-Quartett Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett W. Busch Quartett Weidmannsheil White Squadron Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass Yellowstone Zahlen Quartett Zitterbacke Zoo Quartett Zoo-Quartett
Website

Fans: 0

Become a Fan

Corrections

Customize View

RSS Feed

Record a Play

ObjectID: 11670

	Description Edit \| History

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.

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.

BGG Marketplace

[Browse »] [Sell »]

Pg. 1

New

€4.99

6-Mar-2011

		Browse \| Add Recent \| Ending \| Fixed Price \| Complete	Pg. 1

13d 20h 6m

0 bids

	More Information Edit \| History

This page does not exist. You can edit this page to create it.

Versions

[Add Version]

Pg. 1 of 41 » 41

High Speed

Nick:

Ravensburger racing edition 2012

Publisher: Ravensburger

Artist:

Year: 2012

Product Code: 20 323 9

Size: 3.94 x 2.36 x 0.39 inches

German

Release Date: Jan 2, 2012

Released

View
Corrections
Link Image

Kwartet

Nick:

Tactic Dora Edition

Publisher: Tactic

Artist:

Year: 2011

Size:

Dutch

Release Date:

View
Corrections
Link Image

Kwartet

Nick:

Tactic Diego Edition

Publisher: Tactic

Artist:

Year: 2011

Size:

Dutch

Release Date:

View
Corrections
Link Image

Agricola Quartett

Nick:

German first Edition

Publisher: ASS (Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken), Lookout Games

Artist: Uwe Rosenberg

Year: 2009

Product Code: 22573701

Size: 3.70 x 2.34 x 0.32 inches

German

Release Date:

View
Corrections
Link Image

Fokke & Sukke kwartet

Nick:

Dutch First edition

Publisher: Catullus

Artist:

Year: 2009

Product Code: CAT-FSK

Size:

Dutch

Release Date:

View
Corrections
Link Image

Images	Gallery: All \| Game \| People \| Creative	Hot \| Recent
[Browse »] [Upload »] [Link Image]		Pg. 1 of 45 »

Videos		Hot \| Recent
[Browse »] [Add »]	Category:	Pg. 1 of 1

Forums	Hot \| Recent \| Active
[Browse »] [Post »] [Search »] All \| Reviews \| Sessions \| General \| Rules \| Strategy \| Variants \| News \| Play By Forum	Pg. 1/1

0	General Authors Card Game has a new publisher (News and Variants)	2007-03-10	taadah	1
0	Rules Asking for own?	2007-01-04	adamjon858	1

Linked Forums Relationship: Board Game Forums \| Expansion Forums	Hot \| Recent \| Active
[Browse »] All \| Reviews \| Sessions \| General \| Rules \| Strategy \| Variants \| News	Pg. 1

No Threads Found

Blogs	Hot \| Recent
Pg. 1

No Posts Found

	Recommendations

Weak Recommendations
Bermuda Triangle

Very Weak Recommendations
Sequence	Monopoly	Cranium	Conquest of the Empire
In the Shadow of the Emperor	Serenissima	Elasund: The First City of Catan	Runebound (First Edition)

Files		Title \| Hot \| Recent
[Browse »] [Upload File »]		Pg. 1 of 1

No Files Found.

GeekLists		Title \| Hot \| Recent
[Summary »]		Pg. 1 of 8 »

377	The finds I made outside of thrift stores over the last 3 months	2011-02-14
322	Essen 2007 Canonical List	2007-06-22
306	TRUE story of life of a game company, BGG and me.	2006-04-27
254	No 1s, only one 10: applying the BGG ratings to a lifetime of gaming	2009-12-23
231	The Top/Highest ranked game from each year	2007-07-13
156	A Geeklist of Those Who Died in 2011	2012-01-12
125	Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 6 - 12 February 2012	2012-02-06
120	Beating the “Big C” BGG Style: A Co-op Game-a-thon with Denise	2009-07-19
119	Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 31 January - 6 February 2011	2011-01-31
116	Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: 22 - 28 August 2011	2011-08-22

	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	7589
Children's Games Rank:	411
Num Ratings:	119
Average Rating:	4.39
Standard Deviation:	1.63
Num Views:	19235
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	1.0
Fans:	0

Personal Comments:	75
Users Owning:	268
Users Wanting:	1
Users Trading:	12 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	0
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	319
Plays This Month:	1

Linked Items Relationship: Expansions for this Game

Sort: Category: Mechanic:

Pg. 1 of 0

No Items Found

Web Links

[Add Link] [Propose Default] [Browse]

Pg. 1

Game page – High Speed (German) - Ravensburger	http://www.ravensburger.de/shop/neuheiten/spiele/h...	2012-01-22
Dutch review on speldatabase.be - Pluk van de Petteflet Kwartet	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=1398&zoekcr...	2012-01-22
Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/1398.pdf	2012-01-22
User reviews on bordspelmania.eu in Dutch	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/kwartet...	2010-09-12
Wikipedia entry	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_%28card_game%...	2009-11-22
german report about the reemergence of Game of Authors-like Quartett Games	http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/authoralbumbac...	2009-08-17
Examples of Dutch 'Kwartet' designs (site in Dutch)	http://www.spelmagazijn.nl/nl/spelmag/kwartet.html	2005-01-14
Pagat.com: Go Fish, Authors, Happy Families, Quartet	http://www.pagat.com/quartet/gofish.html	2005-01-14
Online game of Football Quartets (German site, click: 'Online spielen')	http://www.fussball-quartett.de/	2005-01-14