The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘K’

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 ‘K’.

K – Keltis (2008)

The Spiel des Jahres is the most prestigious award in the board gaming world. Presenting its first Game of the Year award in 1979 to Hare & Tortoise, the German-based awards and associated activities aim to “promote the values ​​of gaming in society, among friends, and within families”. Many credit the awards as a driver for the innovative games that were released towards the end of the twentieth century, leading to the rise of German-style board games (aka Eurogames) and the flourishing hobby that we see…

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