Published card games
Authors
Adolf Sala, 1861
Authors is a card game published by Adolf Sala in 1861. It is played with 2 to 6 players, from age 7 and in about 5 to 15 minutes.
- players
- 2–6
- minutes
- 5–15
- years
- 7+
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The box
- Publishers
- Adolf Sala, AMIGO, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Bevink Edities, Bielefelder Spielkarten, Birkel Teigwaren GmbH
- Designer
- Anne W. Abbott
- Artwork
- Harry Baerg, Peter Bauer, Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Manfred Bofinger, Wilhelm Busch, Hans de Beer, Delphine Durand, Rudolf Engel-Hardt
- Year of release
- 1861
- Also known as
- The Game of Authors · 7 Hühnchen · 7 Hühnchen Eier-Nudel · A.N.W.B. Kwartetspel
About the game
Authors or, The Game of Authors is an educational game for three to five players. First published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861, The Game of Authors was in 1897 published by Parker Brothers, also located in Salem, Massachusetts at that time.
The Game of Authors is 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. The play is based on a specialized deck of playing cards.
Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are:
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Shakespeare
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sir Walter Scott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Louisa May Alcott
Edgar Allan PoeMore from Adolf Sala
- Halma · 1884
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