The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘R’

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 ‘R’.

R – Ra (1999)

Way back at the start of our Reiner Knizia alphabet we passed over Amun-Re saying that not only was it not in Knizia’s top 3 auction games, but that it wasn’t even his best auction game set in ancient Egypt.

Ra, originally published in 1999, is a strong contender for both those statements. Indeed, some have suggested that it’s the best auction game of all time.

Ra sees players bidding on tiles across three epochs, gaining points for collecting sets of some tile types and for having majorities in other…

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