question: Was Thurn and Taxis or Focus published first?
answer: Focus
context: Title: The Crying of Lot 49
  Passage: The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1965.  The shortest of Pynchon's novels, it is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies, Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero (or Tristero).  The former actually existed and was the first firm to distribute postal mail; the latter is Pynchon's invention.  The novel is often classified as a notable example of postmodern fiction. " Time" included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
  Title: 2010 ADAC GT Masters
  Passage: The 2010 ADAC GT Masters season was the fourth season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the German automobile club ADAC.  It began on 10 April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben and finished on 3 October at the same place after seven double-header meetings.  Peter Kox and Albert von Thurn & Taxis became the first drivers in this series to share the championship title.
  Title: Andreas Seyfarth
  Passage: Andreas Seyfarth (born November 6, 1962) is a German-style board game designer, who is most famous for creating "Puerto Rico", which is rated #6 on BoardGameGeek.  In 2002, the game was awarded first place for the prestigious Deutscher Spiele Preis (German for "German Game Prize").  Seyfarth also received the crown jewel of German board-game awards, the Spiel des Jahres (German for "Game of the Year") in 1994 and 2006 for his games "Manhattan" and "Thurn and Taxis" respectively.
  Title: Focus (board game)
  Passage: Focus is an abstract strategy board game, designed by Sid Sackson and first published in 1964 by Kosmos.  The game has been re-published many times since, sometimes under the titles "Domination" or "Dominio".  "Focus" won the 1981 Spiel des Jahres and Essen Feather awards.  The game appears in Sackson's "A Gamut of Games" in the section "New Battles on an Old Battlefield".
  Title: Omodeo Tasso
  Passage: Omodeo or Amadeo Tasso was the late-13th century Italian patriarch of the Thurn und Taxis dynasty generally credited with initiating the first modern postal service as the administrators first of the Imperial Post and later their own postal network.
  Title: Thurn and Taxis (board game)
  Passage: Thurn and Taxis is a board game designed by Karen and Andreas Seyfarth and published in 2006 by Hans im Glück in German (as "Thurn und Taxis") and by Rio Grande Games in English.  In the game, players seek to build postal networks and post offices in Bavaria and surrounding areas, as did the house of Thurn und Taxis in the 16th century.  The game won the prestigious 2006 Spiel des Jahres award.
citations: Focus (board game) Thurn and Taxis (board game)