The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘M’

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 ‘M’.

M – Modern Art (1992)

Knizia’s first published game was Complica in 1985, and his first ‘boxed’ game was Digging, released in 1990.

But his first hit was Modern Art. Released in 1992, it’s rarely been out of print since.

Nominated for the 1993 Spiel des Jahres, it also received multiple national game of the year nominations, winning in Finland, Brazil and Germany (the other big German board game award, the Deutscher Spielepreis). Whilst we’re not convinced that it really should have lost the Spiel des Jahres to a variant…

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