The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘T’

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 and expansions, 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 ‘T’.

T – Through the Desert (1998)

Knizia is famously reticent when it comes to naming a favourite design of his (although, as in this recent interview with Game Market, he’s sometimes happy to name games that he’s proud of). His stock response in interviews to the ‘favourite game’ question is that it’s “very difficult to pick out my favourite game, it is almost like picking out your favourite child”. When pushed for an answer, he’ll then remark that “if you have over 500 kids it gets much more complicated”. Finally, Knizia will say that…

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