Reiner Knizia
Sebagai designer di boardgame
Lost Cities: Rivals
[2018]
Time to travel once again to distant locations, but in Lost Cities: Rivals you might find yourself running short of cash to take the trips you want!
Lost Cities: Rivals features gameplay familiar from other titles in the Lost Cities series. ...
Forbidden City
[2018]
The new Chinese Emperor Wei Zu Yang is still too young to rule. His advisors hope to strengthen their influence throughout the imperial palace – better known as the Forbidden City.
In turn in Forbidden City, the advisors place down roo...
Blue Lagoon
[2018]
Blue Lagoon is an area control and set collection game in which players manage a group of settlers spreading out over the islands of a newly discovered archipelago.
The game is played over two phases (the exploration phase followed by the se...
Sakura
[2018]
Every year the Emperor walks through the imperial gardens to greet the spring, every year he stops beneath the Sakura trees, and every year you try to paint his picture. This will be your year. Artists from near and far will step over their rivals to...
Lost Cities: To Go
[2018]
Lost Cities has been around for ages, and now you can travel these expeditions in a handy portable format, with you once again needing to forge paths across the Himalayas, along volcanoes, under water, and through the rainforest or the desert —...
Yellow & Yangtze
[2018]
The period of the Warring States (475-221 BCE) describes a time of endless wars between seven rival states: Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, and Zhao. These states were finally unified in 221 BCE under the Qin dynasty to lay the origin of today's Ch...
The Quest for El Dorado
[2017]
In The Quest for El Dorado, players slip into the roles of expedition leaders who have embarked on a search for the legendary land of gold in the dense jungles of South America. Each player assembles and equips their own team, hiring various helpers ...
Amun-Re: The Card Game
[2017]
Amun-Re: The Card Game is a card-based version of Amun-Re, and the auction at the heart of that game is still present in this design, with the results of those auctions driving the rest of the action.
In more detail, Amun-Re: The Card Game l...
King's Road
[2017]
In King's Road, the players are nobles who are attempting to gain power and influence within the king's many provinces. As the king travels along the road that connects all the major landmarks within his territory, he will allow the most influential ...
Gold Armada
[2017]
Gold Armada is a pirate themed board game where players roll the dice and try to collect as many gold coins as possible! The better you roll, the more difficult it is to collect more coins. Successful rolls are rewarded with gold, but unsuccessful ro...
Candy Match
[2017]
In Candy Match, players place cards depicting one to three sweets. As soon as a player finds a card combination in which all the candy depicted is in pairs, they call "Candy match" and show their solution. If the symbol pairs are correct, t...
Yangtze
[2016]
In Yangtze, players are distributors on the Yangtze River, with each trying to make the most money there.
On a turn, a player can take two actions, first selling one or more bundles of goods, then possibly purchasing a commodity. Goods on th...
Medici: The Card Game
[2016]
Medici: The Card Game is a new design by Reiner Knizia that shares the setting and feel of the classic Medici board game, without using that game's auction mechanisms.
In 15th century Florence, players try to acquire the most valuable goods ...
Mmm!
[2015]
When the cat’s away, the mice will play. But the mean black cat is still close when you try to fill your tummy with all the yummy food from the pantry and say “Mmm!”
The players are mice feeding on the Smiths’ food storage and should not be ...
Keltis
[2008]
Keltis is a multi-player game based on Lost Cities, with some rules changes, later published with Knizia's original rules and theme as Lost Cities: The Board Game.
Players play cards to move their playing pieces along stone paths. Cards show...
Abandon Ship
[2008]
The S.S. Nvrsnks is going down, and who is always first off a sinking ship? The rats!
Abandon Ship is a game in which you play to move your group of rats off the ship before the rising water drowns them. The Nvrsnks is also loaded with valua...
Blue Moon City
[2006]
Blue Moon City - the board game - picks up where the two-player game, (Blue Moon), ended: the reconstruction of the destroyed city of Blue Moon. The board, illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel as well as many well-known American fantasy artists, consists o...
Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
[2005]
This Deluxe Edition of Reiner Knizia’s acclaimed Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation combines a superb craftsmanship with an exciting expansion for this award-winning game.
The Confrontation is a two-player board game in which players take ...
Amun-Re
[2003]
Everyone knows of the pyramids on the Nile - eternal monuments of a powerful and beautiful culture, that can still take our breath away. The pharaohs choose their sites, build their pyramids, and thank Amun Re and the other Gods for their bounty.
Carcassonne: The Castle
[2003]
Carcassonne: the Castle takes place in the city of Carcassone itself. The theme is development of the city within the "castle walls", which might be more appropriately called the city walls, but Carcassonne: The City was apparently already in develop...
Winner's Circle
[2001]
A lively game of horse racing where players bet on several of seven horses to try to gain the most money by the end of the game.
A re-issue by Alea of Knizia's Turf Horse Racing published by Gibsons Games. This edition has better graphics an...
Taj Mahal
[2000]
Northwest India at the beginning of the 18th century. The rule of the Grand Moguls is waning, and the Maharishis and princes seize the opportunity to take control of the region. By influencing the prominent forces, building magnificent palaces, and e...
Battle Line
[2000]
Two opponents face off across a 'battle line' and attempt to win the battle by taking 5 of 9 flags or 3 adjacent flags. Flags are decided by placing cards into 3 card poker-type hands on either side of the flag (similar to straight flush, 3 of a kind...
Ra
[1999]
Ra is an auction and set-collection game with an Ancient Egyptian theme. Each turn players are able to purchase lots of tiles with their bidding tiles (suns). Once a player has used up his or her suns, the other players continue until they do likew...
Schotten Totten
[1999]
In Schotten Totten, nine boundary stones lie between you and your opponent. In front of each, you build poker-like formations of three cards on a side. Whoever plays the higher-ranking formation wins the stone. And in a unique twist, you may use y...
Lost Cities
[1999]
Lost Cities is a card game in the Kosmos two-player series. The game consists of a single deck of cards of rank 2–10 in 5 different colors with 3 special "handshakes" ("HS" in scoring examples below) in each suit. There is also a board which function...
Samurai
[1998]
Part of the Knizia tile-laying trilogy, Samurai is set in medieval Japan. Players compete to gain the favor of three factions: samurai, peasants, and priests, which are represented by helmet, rice paddy, and Buddha figures scattered about the board, ...
Through the Desert
[1998]
Each player attempts to score the most points by snaking caravan routes through the desert, trying to reach oases and blocking off sections of the desert. Many people feel that it is reminiscent of Go.
Publisher's Description
From the aw...
Tigris & Euphrates
[1997]
Regarded by many as Reiner Knizia's masterpiece, Tigris & Euphrates is set in the ancient fertile crescent with players building civilizations through tile placement. Players are given four different leaders: farming, trading, religion, and governmen...
Medici
[1995]
Another Reiner Knizia standby, this game plays very well with varying numbers of people. The object is to accrue the most points during three rounds, which you do by spending your points to bid on sets of cards. Each turn the current player turns u...
High Society
[1995]
In Reiner Knizia's High Society, players bid against each other to acquire the various trappings of wealth (positive-number and multiplier cards) while avoiding its pitfalls (negative number and divisor cards). While bidding, though, keep an eye on ...
Modern Art
[1992]
Membeli dan menjual lukisan adalah bisnis yang sangat menguntungkan, setidaknya itulah yang membuat Hollywood percaya, dan itulah premis dari permainan ini. Lima seniman yang berbeda telah menghasilkan banyak lukisan, dan ini adalah tugas pemain untu...
Carcassonne: The Castle – Falcon
[0]
Carcassonne: The Castle - Falcon Expansion is available as a free print & play download from knizia.de/more. Presented by Reiner Knizia, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and Hans-im-Glück Verlag.
Original game description:
In Carcas...