Awards & Winners

Reiner Knizia

Date of Birth 16-November-1957
Place of Birth Illertissen
(Bavaria, Germany, Neu-Ulm)
Nationality Germany
Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany, he developed his first game at the age of eight. He has a PhD in mathematics, and has been a full-time game designer since 1997, when he quit his job from the board of a large international bank. Knizia has been living in England since 1993. In addition to having designed over 500 published games, Knizia is highly acclaimed as a designer, having won the Deutscher Spiele Preis four times, a Spiel des Jahres, and numerous other national and international awards. At the Origins Game Fair in 2002 he was inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame. His games frequently make appearances on various "top games" lists, including the GAMES 100 list, the BoardGameGeek top 100, and the Internet Top 100 Games List. Several gaming conventions host "Kniziathons", which are tournaments dedicated to celebrating 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, which was started in 1987, is still going. One of Knizia's best selling games is Lord of the Rings, published in 17 languages with over one million copies sold. His dice game Pickomino has also reached 1 million copies sold and his Keltis sold over 600,000 copies. His game Ingenious has been published in over 20 languages. In 2011, Knizia designed a Star Trek-themed game for NECA/WizKids, based on the 2009 film that 'reset' the Star Trek universe.

Awards by Reiner Knizia

Check all the awards nominated and won by Reiner Knizia.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Spiel des Jahres FITS

2008


Spiel des Jahres
Honored for : Keltis

2001


Spiel des Jahres - Special Award
Honored for : Lord of the Rings
(Best use of literature in a game)