The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘H’

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 ‘H’.

H – High Society (1995)

Not the 1956 classic musical comedy featuring Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra (What a cast!), but a phenomenal and accessible auction game from 1995.

The premise of High Society is that players are ‘quintessential bon vivants’, competing to be the most stylish member of society. To become the icon of the age involves bidding vast amounts of money on auctions for the best and most luxurious excesses. Spend too much, however, and you’ll be outcast from polite society as the penniless upstart that you are.

This is the decadent knife edge that…

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