The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘N’

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 ‘N’.

N – No Mercy (2022)

Meeple Mountain’s Reiner Knizia Alphabet was first conceived way back in September 2022. Initial research and planning took place throughout that autumn and the first words were formally typed in the early days of 2023. It’s been a gentle project, the research and writing mostly slow and steady, only sometimes sporadic. It was put on hold at one point as the 40th anniversary approached. 

It started off as a single article, 150-300 words per letter. Over time it split, dividing the alphabet into two parts, then four. Later it expanded further, forming the fortnightly fortieth festivity that it is now. One…

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