The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘Y’

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 ‘Y’.

Y – Yellow & Yangtze (2018)

Sequels get a bad rep.

Often the derision is deserved (*cough* Star Wars sequel trilogy *cough*). Most are simply inoffensive, not doing anything wrong but not distinguishing themselves either. Sometimes, however, lightning strikes twice. Yellow & Yangtze is one of those times; the ground of its arrival scorched from the impact. There’s no doubt that it was a significant early ripple in the surge of Knizia games that returned him to the heights of popularity after a decade out of the hobby spotlight.

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