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The Game of Authors (1861)

Average Rating: 4.39/10
Board Game Rank: 7589
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1861
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The Game of Authors
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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
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Bible Game No. 1 Illustrated
Big Valley
Blühender Garten
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Blumenquartett
Blüten am Wegesrand
Bonanza
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Briefmarken-Quartett Nr. 5
Buchstaben Quartett
Bünte Vogelwelt
Children's Authors
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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
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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
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Les Grands Hommes de France
Grosswild
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Das Heer
Heidi Kehrt Heim
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Heißner Blumen Quartett
High Speed
Holy Land
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Illustrated Mythology
Illustrated Mythology Game
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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
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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
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Märchen-Quartett
Märchen-Quartett
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Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
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Musikinstrumente aus alter Zeit
The National Game of Public Men
Neue's Componisten
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Oldtimers II
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Pinocchio
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Quartett
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Der Rhein
Richard Scarry Firkort
Robinson
Schlumpf Quartett
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Schuss und Tor
Schwarzwald
Die Schweiz
Schweizer Heimat
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Shakespeare
Skippy
So fängt es an...
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Thierry le Fronde
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Tierkinder
Tobias Taps
Tom Sawyer
Trolls Kwartet
Türkisch 8
Tyrannen Quartett
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Unter Geiern
Vater und Sohn
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Vogelwelt
Vokabel-Quartett
Volkerkunde-Sammelquartett
W. Busch Quartett
Weidmannsheil
White Squadron
Wir Tauchen mit Hans Hass
Yellowstone
Zahlen Quartett
Zitterbacke
Zoo Quartett
Zoo-Quartett
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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.

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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Ravensburger racing edition 2012
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Year: 2012
Product Code: 20 323 9
Size: 3.94 x 2.36 x 0.39 inches
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Agricola Quartett
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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
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Board Game Rank: 7589
Children's Games Rank: 411
Num Ratings: 119
Average Rating: 4.39
Standard Deviation: 1.63
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