Authors (card game) Authors (card game) Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first "Game of Authors" was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861. In 1897 it was also published by Parker Brothers, which also was in Salem, Massachusetts at the time. The deck of cards consists of eleven sets of four cards each representing the works of eleven famous authors. The object of the game is to form complete sets of the four cards comprising the works of a particular author. The winner is the
Marriage (card game) word joker is loosely used to denote any wildcard. The wildcard with points are called maal cards/ point cards. The game ends when a player arranges the cards in complete sets with or without the use of wildcards and displays it on the floor for others to see. The player has one disregarded card at the end of the game. The 8th dublee also ends the game. The player who is playing dublee gets to pick up the "offered card" only if he is forming the eighth dublee to end the game. Otherwise he gets to choose the card from