Reiner Knizia

Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany, he developed his first game at the age of 6. He has a PhD in mathematics, and, after working in the Software/Banking industry, is now a full-time game designer living in England (since 1993).

Related Topics:
German-style board game - Germany - Mathematics - England

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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.

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His mother's favorite game is Lost Cities.

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Reiner Knizia started developing games for his pbm zine Postspillion, founded in 1985. The zine still exists and the game Bretton Woods (also a Reiner Knizia design), started 1987, is still going.

Related Topics:
Pbm - Zine - Bretton Woods

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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).

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