The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘Z’

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 ‘Z’.

Z – Zoo Vadis (2023)

About a year into researching and writing Meeple Mountain’s Reiner Knizia Alphabet I took a break.

I’d reached the letter ‘O’ and wasn’t happy with how things were progressing. What had originally been intended as a single article with each letter afforded around 200 words, was starting to look like it wasn’t going to work. There was too much to write about, too many interesting diversions and tidbits. I could do it, everything was the right size but the overall result wasn’t especially satisfying. Too surface level, when the whole point of the alphabet was to dive deeper into Knizia’s career than…

The post The Reiner Knizia Alphabet – The Letter ‘Z’ appeared first on Meeple Mountain.