The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘I’

The year 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr Reiner Knizia’s career as a board game designer – his first published game, Complica, was released in a magazine in 1985 (although he’d self-published games before then as well).

Since then, Knizia has designed and published over 800 games, many of which are critically acclaimed. Put simply, Reiner Knizia is the landscape on which all other modern designers build their houses.

To celebrate Knizia’s career and back catalogue, Meeple Mountain are taking things back to basics to consider the ABC of Reiner Knizia: one game for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.

This time: The Letter ‘I’.

I – Ingenious (2004)

Knizia has spoken about how he starts designing a game and that he resists trying to find a formula to repeat each time. “Innovation does not spark when you always start from the same point and then follow a fixed methodology of how to progress.” he said in an interview with OnTableTop. “Trampling along the same path with each design is unlikely to lead you to something groundbreakingly new. I have learned to look for ever new entry points of innovation.”

It’s why, despite being a doctor of mathematics, his designs rarely start with maths. “The psychologist…

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