The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘O’

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 ‘O’.

O – Orongo (2014)

Prior to European arrival, the ceremonial village of Orongo on the southwest tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was the centre of a birdman cult, where hunters would race to collect the first sooty tern egg of the season from the nearby islet of Motu Nui. Many fell to their death from the cliffs or were eaten by sharks in their quest for the eggs. In the 2016 Disney film Moana, the titular heroine comes from the fictional island of Motunui, a purposeful reference to both the Motu Nui islet and a settlement in the North Island of New Zealand on order…

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