The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘X’

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 ‘X’.

X – The Quest for El Dorado: Heroes & HeXes eXpansion (2018)

Okay. So, here’s the thing. Dr Reiner Knizia, quite possibly the world’s most prolific and well respected board game designer, the man with over 800 designs to his name, the man who is currently celebrating his 40th publishing anniversary, the man to whom we’ve devoted an entire year and thousands of words to honouring, that Dr Reiner Knizia doesn’t have a single English language game beginning with the letter ‘X’. Or, at least not as far as we’re aware. We’ve spent a lot of time searching but it’s possible that an alternate title has slipped…

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