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Reiner Knizia

Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game German-style board game

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 designer. Born in Germany Germany

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 in 1957, he developed his first game at the age of six. He has a PhD in mathematics Mathematics

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, and, after working as a quantitative analyst  is now a full-time game designer. Knizia has been living in England England

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 since 1993. In addition to being quite prolific, with over 200 published games, he is highly acclaimed as a designer, having won the Deutscher Spiele Preis Deutscher Spiele Preis

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 four times, a Spiel des Jahres Spiel des Jahres

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 special award, a 2002 Origins Award and numerous other national awards.

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Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game German-style board game

German-style board games are a broad sub-genre of board game [i]s that generally feature simple rules, a ... 

 designer. Born in Germany Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country [i] in central Europe [i]. ... 

 in 1957, he developed his first game at the age of six. He has a PhD in mathematics Mathematics

Mathematics is the discipline that deals with concepts such as quantity [i], structure [i], space [i] a ... 

, and, after working as a quantitative analyst  is now a full-time game designer. Knizia has been living in England England

England is the largest and most populous constituent country [i] of the United Kingdom [i]. ... 

 since 1993.

In addition to being quite prolific, with over 200 published games, he is highly acclaimed as a designer, having won the Deutscher Spiele Preis Deutscher Spiele Preis

The Deutscher Spiele Preis is an award for German-style game [i]s.} It was star ... 

 four times, a Spiel des Jahres Spiel des Jahres

The Spiel des Jahres is a prestigious award for board [i] and card game [i]s,
... 

 special award, a 2002 Origins Award and numerous other national awards. His games make frequent appearances on various "top games" lists, including seven games on the GAMES 100 list, fourteen games in the BoardGameGeek BoardGameGeek

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 top 100, and sixteen games on the Internet Top 100 Games List. Several gaming conventions host "Kniziathons", tournaments dedicated to Knizia-designed games.

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 , started in 1987, is still going.

According to Knizia, his best selling game as of 2005 is Lord of the Rings, published in 17 languages with over 1 million copies sold.

Notable games

  • Amun-Re
    • Winner, Deutscher Spiele Preis 2003
  • Auf Heller und Pfennig
  • Einfach Genial
    • Winner, Schweizer Spielepreis Schweizer Spielepreis

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       best strategy game 2004
  • Free Ride Poker
  • Lord of the Rings
    • Winner, Spiel des Jahres 2001 special prize for best use of literature in a game
  • Lost Cities
  • Modern Art Modern art

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    • Winner, Deutscher Spiele Preis 1993
  • Ra Ra

    Ra is the sun-god [i] of Heliopolis [i] in ancient Egypt [i]. ... 

  • Samurai Samurai

    was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial [i] Japan [i]. ... 

  • Taj Mahal Taj Mahal

    The Taj Mahal is a monument [i] located in Agra [i], India [i], constructed in 22 years by a workforce o ... 

    • Winner, Deutscher Spiele Preis 2000
    • Winner, Essen Feather 2000
  • Tower of Babel Tower of Babel

    According to the narrative in Genesis [i] of the Bible [i], the Tower of Babel [i] was a tower [i] buil ... 

    • Winner, Schweizer Speilepreis best strategy game 2005
  • Through the Desert
  • Tigris and Euphrates Tigris and Euphrates

    Tigris and Euphrates is a German [i] strategy board game [i] designed by ... 

    • Winner, Deutscher Spiele Preis 1998

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