Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany, he developed his first game at the age of six. He has a PhD in mathematics, and, after working as a quantitative analyst ("quant") is now a full-time game designer. Knizia has been living in England since 1993. German-style board games, also known as Euro games, designer games, family strategy games or hobby board games, are family games designed to appeal simultaneously to older children and adults. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Euclid, detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ... A quantitative analyst is a person who works in the financial markets developing mathematical models to assist the activities of traders and risk managers within banks and other large corporate institutes. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Knizia is highly represented on the Internet Top 100 Games List, with sixteen games rated in the top 100, and six within the top 20. He is considered to be one of the best game designers of all time. It is sometimes alleged that his sole weakness in design is that his themes are rarely connected to the structure; the themes sometimes feel "pasted on". Since game design is a mostly abstract art, this is not considered a major detraction against the quality of his games. The Internet Top 100 Games List is a ranked list of non-computer games, mostly board and card games. ...

His mother's favorite game is Lost Cities. In the popular imagination lost cities are real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that have fallen into terminal decline and been lost to history. ...

Reiner Knizia started developing games for his play-by-mail game zine Postspillion, founded in 1985. The zine still exists and the game Bretton Woods (also a Reiner Knizia design), started 1987, is still going. Play by mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. ... A zine—an abbreviation of the word fanzine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... This article is about the year. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

According to Dr. Knizia, his most successful game (as of 3/05), is Lord of the Rings (published in 17 languages, selling over 1 million copies). Lord of the Rings is a family board game designed by Reiner Knizia based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. ...

Some of Knizia's games

• Africa
• Amun-Re
• Atlanteon
• Auf Heller und Pfennig (released in English as Kingdoms)
• Battle Line
• Beowulf - The Legend
• Blue Moon
• Colossal Arena (released in English as Titan: the Arena)
• Einfach Genial (released in English as Ingenious, released in Dutch as Genious, released in Spanish as Genial)
• Gold Rush
• High Society
• Lord of the Rings
• Lost Cities
• Medici
• Merchants of Amsterdam
• Minotaur Lords
• Modern Art
• Ra
• Razzia!
• Royal Turf
• Samurai
• Scarab Lords
• Schotten Totten
• Stephensons Rocket
• Taj Mahal
• Through the Desert
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Times Square
• Traumfabrik, released in English as Hollywood Blockbuster
• Zirkus Flohcati

Amun-Re is a game designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 2003 by by Hans im Glück in German. ... Kingdoms is a German-style board game for 2-4 players designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2002 by Fantasy Flight. ... Kingdoms is a German-style board game for 2-4 players designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2002 by Fantasy Flight. ... Ingenious is a board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 2004 by Kosmos under its German title Einfach Genial. ... Ingenious is a board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 2004 by Kosmos under its German title Einfach Genial. ... Lord of the Rings is a family board game designed by Reiner Knizia based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... In the popular imagination lost cities are real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that have fallen into terminal decline and been lost to history. ... Modern Art is a bidding game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 1992 by Hans im Glück in German and by Mayfair Games in English. ... RA is a board game for three to five players designed by Reiner Knizia based on ancient Egyptian culture. ... Samurai is a German-style board game invented by Reiner Knizia, distributed by Hans im Glück in Germany and Rio Grande Games in the United States. ... Taj Mahal is a German-style board game for 3–5 players designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 2000 by Alea in German. ... Through the Desert is a board game by Reiner Knizia based on the placement of camels on a hexagon-based board. ... Tigris and Euphrates is a German strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 1997 by Hans im Glück in German (as Euphrat und Tigris) and by Mayfair Games in English. ...

External links

• Knizia Games
• Postspillion (in German language)
• List of Reiner Knizia's games on BoardGameGeek
• Lengthy MP3 interview with Knizia at BoardGameGeek's BoardGameSpeak