The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘U’

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 ‘U’.

U – The Ultimate Dice Game Compendium (2006)

A few months ago there was a very minor discussion about the number of board games Reiner Knizia had actually designed.

Knizia's website states “more than 800 games published worldwide”. BoardGameGeek, at the time of writing, lists 809 designs, although that includes expansions and promos. Efka Bladukas, of No Pun Included, suggested on BlueSky that these numbers are vast over-exaggerations. This prompted Matt Montgomery, over at Don't Eat the Meeples, to attempt to calculate an ‘accurate’ number, settling on a number…

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