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
Happy Families 1990, BBC1 showed a children's TV series based on the Happy Families Card Game, including the characters from the game. In 1987, the town of Dartmouth in Devon, UK, produced a special version of the game to commemorate the many real business owners in the town that had names appropriate to their jobs. These were: Many of the businesses are still there as of 2012, but had been removed as of 2017. In 2016, a British games company called GoForItGames.co.uk produced a contemporary series of special edition Happy Family card games that dispense with the professions. The card illustrations address