Reiner Knizia

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…

Age 10+ Best 4–5 players By Reiner Knizia

Age of War is a quick-playing game of conquest. Fourteen cards are laid out at the start of the game, each showing one castle and the symbols…

Alles Kanone! – and the subsequently rethemed spin-off games Alles Trolli! and Alles Tomate! – are memory games with identical game play while the…

Age 6+ Best 3–4 players By Reiner Knizia

Alles Tomate! – and the subsequently rethemed spin-off games Alles Trolli! and Alles Kanone! – are memory games with identical game play while the…

Age 6+ Best 3–4 players By Reiner Knizia

Alles Trolli! – and the subsequently rethemed spin-off games Alles Tomate! and Alles Kanone! – are memory games with identical game play while the…

Age 6+ Best 3–4 players By Reiner Knizia

Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here. Simple Knizia game for children. Progress up the trail to the foot of Kilimanjaro by…

Age 7+ Best 4 players By Reiner Knizia

Note: This game is in French.  The are some text in the game but the game itself is language independent.  English rules can be found here.  Players…

Age 12+ Best 5 players By Reiner Knizia

Everyone knows of the pyramids on the Nile - eternal monuments of a powerful and beautiful culture, that can still take our breath away. The…

Age 12+ Best 5 players By Reiner Knizia

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…

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Since the apes have taken over, the atmosphere in the southern coastal town has been harsh. Gangs armed with bananas roam the dark alleys in search…

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The nobility have mysteriously vanished! Or are at least not around at the moment. It's up to you to unite the country by pretending it belongs to…

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March 18, 1990, Boston: You enter the art museum, and an hour-and-a-half later you come out unnoticed with your pockets full — but now comes the…

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Original edition, titled Revolution, is set in French Revolution era Paris. Royalists and Jacobins fight for superiority in the 25 city districts,…

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In Axio, players take turns adding tiles to a shared playing area. Each time you play a tile — with tiles bearing one or two colored symbols — you…

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In Axio Rota, players lay down tiles to create connections, but this game features no game board and instead of creating rows, players now try in…

Age 8+ Best 1–4 players By Reiner Knizia

The Neo-Babylonian empire, especially under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 B.C.), was a period of rebirth for southern Mesopotamia.…

Age 14+ Best 3–4 players By Reiner Knizia

Note: This game includes English and Spanish.  For a preview, English rule can be found here. The Neo-Babylonian empire, especially under the reign…

Age 14+ Best 3–4 players By Reiner Knizia

Battle Line is a two-player card game built around the theme of warfare during the age of Alexander the Great. Battle Line features 60 full-color…

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The fascinating legend of the great hero Beowulf is told in one of the oldest works of English literature. This game relives the legend of how the…

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In Reiner Knizia's BITS – a successor to his own FITS – all players are active at the same time and have their own board on which they will place…

Age 8+ Best 2–4 players By Reiner Knizia

Kartenspiele im Wilden Westen (Cardgames of the Wild West) is a book consisting of 12 card games which can be played solitaire, two-handed or in…

Age 10+ Best 1–10 players By Reiner Knizia

Blue Moon is a card game for two players, which has often been compared to Magic: The Gathering, although it has considerably different game…

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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…

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The once proud and strong Blue Moon City has been plunged into chaos. The Golden Dragon has fallen, the Holy Crystal of Psi has shattered, and the…

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Blue Moon: Buka Invasion is a Peoples expansion for Reiner Knizia's Blue Moon. The deck includes 31 new cards and is playable right out of the box…

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This expansion to Reiner Knizia's Blue Moon adds 30 new cards. Rather than being a standalone deck, Blue Moon: Emissaries & Inquisitors - Allies…

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This expansion to Reiner Knizia's Blue Moon adds 30 new cards. The Flit feature many retrievable characters and the ability to pair up boosters to…

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This game was originally published by AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH as Flinke Pinke. This game is one of those 'painfully simple' Reiner Knizia games.…

Age 7+ Best 4 players By Reiner Knizia

Get the rabbits out of the building in Hopp hopp Häschen before they drown, and rescue as many of them as you can! Each turn, the colored die…

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Note: A solo puzzle.  English rules can be found here. It is not as easy as it seems to lay out the perfect Japanese Garden with only a handful of…

Note: A solo puzzle.  This time, it will make you smile at all unhappy faces. But in addition to choosing the right tile, you need to play them in…

Note: A solo puzzle.   Like the first part of the Brains series, Japanese Garden, Brains' treasure map also presents the players with exciting logic…

The solitaire puzzle series Brains is now a competitive game for up to four puzzle enthusiasts. In Brains Family: Burgen & Drachen, players compete…

Age 8+ Best 2 players By Reiner Knizia

The solitaire puzzle series Brains is now a competitive game for up to four puzzle enthusiasts. In Brains Family: Burgen & Drachen, players compete…

Age 8+ Best 2 players By Reiner Knizia

Brainwaves is a series of games developed by game designers and neuroscientists in which players challenge their episodic memory, that is, their…

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Card game with a racing track by Reiner Knizia. Players use colored cards (numbered 1 or 2) to move four colored tokens along a track. The color…

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Butterfly Garden is a tile-laying game along the lines of Metro, Tsuro, and Linie 1 in which players build paths bit by bit, with no player owning…

Age 8+ Best 4 players By Reiner Knizia

A new invasive species of butterflies are fluttering near your garden. You will lose 2 points for each of these butterflies if they land in your…

Another of Reiner Knizia's fleet of games, this one is about making profits by buying and selling business stock. Players use cards to manipulate…

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Callisto seems to be simple, but quite tricky when it comes to storing its components within the given range. But not only their own moves should be…

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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…

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Note: This game is in German.  Loose translate of the rules can be found here. Captain Black is a cooperative board game with an electronic game…

Age 6+ Best 3 players By Reiner Knizia