The Reiner Knizia Special 

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Can we have a 30 minute video of Elaine throwing boardgame at Efka every 30 seconds and he has to review them

That moment when you realize that your most played cardgame "Battle Line: Medieval" is also from Reiner Knizia.

Whilst all these games are certainly great, my favourite of the games left out is High Society, a very cheap and very tiny buy also very great auction game

Props for the _Hudson Hawk_ scene. Oh, and the Babylonia predecessors should perhaps have included Samurai.

Wow, I loved your humor, knowledge and pacing. Great video ^^

I wanted to know more about Babylonia for so long, I am happy you are reviewing it, components look great! Let's dive into the third part of the review now! :)

Us: Where is Arkham part 2, NPI? I NEED It to ! also us: already purchased every cycle, investigator deck and standalone, barkham included

Great job - modern art is one of my favorites. My other two favorites are actually Medici (the original game) and high society is also a great short game of his that works great.

I loved hearing your thoughts on Rainer Knizia's designs. This was so much fun. Thank you!

great video, now do more of these :D

I got 96 Knizia games now. Sadly I have not played them all yet. My favourite designer.

Ok, someone should print a version of Modern Art where you are auctioning off different versions of Modern Art.

Stephensons Rocket is horrible to explain, and a little more dry than his other games (which sounds impossible, but I don't make the rules), but an absolute delight to play! So many shared incentive systems going on like in any good train game, and its quite fun to just crash trains into each other.

Thanks

I thought the "Yoko" in the old Modern Art is just a name they invented, attached to a Roy Lichtenstein pastiche.

Happy birthday, Efka! I've never played a game by Reiner Knizia. I feel like a poor board game fan.

I bought Modern Art the Cmon edition...The Card Game version. I am super bummed since I bought it from a local shop. It looks really really lame. With that being said, I just bought the original because f'it. I want it.

When doing a multi game video, please include timestamps so people can skip the games that not interest them

"Just in case part 2 never comes out" *cries for Arkham Horror: The Card Game Part 2*

“People are designed to recognize patterns. It’s a generic tool that’s been passed down for generations such that we can survive IKEA.” That joke caught me so off guard I burst out laughing. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was scientific evidence backing this claim up XD

Was the 697 going live any minute now a troll for those of us still waiting on the Arkham Horror LCG part 2?

I'm so sad that I entered this hobby just as ZMAN games sunset the euro classics collection.

I love my small-box German Oink Games version of Modern Art! It's a tiny box but they still managed to include an easel.

Great video and gags, but it was the worst explanation of Babylonia that I've ever seen ;) - you totally forgot to include the tension that comes from scoring the previously acquired cities by all players as soon as the new city is scored so that you have incentive to have majority early AND to have long chains. AND you want the ziggurat special powers as early as possible as well. Obviously, I'm a fan. :)

"In Pandemic years that makes it as old as chess." Excellent. I laughed. Then cried.

Thanks for this. Knizia is probably my favorite designer. And I have to say: the "lightning round" at the end was a hoot.

This video made me realize that a) realize who he is b) realize I’ve played more of his games than I thought c) made me start seeing his games EVERYWHERE and d) already bought three of them and am eyeing a bunch more. Thank you for doing this video (and podcast episode) highlighting his games!

Samurai is another of his tile laying games I highly recommend! It’s a rare pure area majority game with no point scoring. You’re trying to score the most of 3 types of statues. If you win 2/3 of these majorities you instantly win, but there’s a fun tie-breaker if there’s no clear winner where, like a proto-T&E, you add the sum total of the *other* statues that you did not win majorities in to decide who wins!

There was one notable absence of a great RK game, and that is Samurai of course! One of my favourites, along with through the desert!

Just when SUSD takes a week off, NPI steps in with a 36 minute video to pick up the slack 🎉

"What is art anyway? It is literally the opposite of money."

Of course, in Modern Art you never want to end the round with a Double Auction, because that will prevent you from getting money for one or both of the paintings (as the 5th painting that ends the round is never auctioned; another delightful Knizia wrinkle).

Oh man. You sell Babylonia short. It’s quite possibly the very best of Knizia’s tile-layers. It’s damned magnificent and in no way a consolation prize for the others being hard to find.

"Knyaz" is like "king, prince" in russian, not a knight! Knight is "рыцарь, ritzar". :р

Efka's seductive head-nodding has me hypnotized, I've rewatched the opening at least 5 times now. am I the only one ?

So when's the Arkham Horror LCG part II coming out?!

I wish people didn't treat Legacy games as such reverend pieces that are not to be spoiled by any means. Reviewing them feels almost pointless when you only give us the vaguest hints about it. Just tell us 1 or 2 scenarios so we can understand what is actually happening in the legacy part of the game.

Does anyone have a take on "Loot"? I got it, played a couple of times, and would have very happily played it the rest of the entire day. It was so simple, and so good. It doesn't ever get talked about, though.

Love it, such chaotic fun. Some serious games though, I am a huge Tigris & Euphrates fan.

Not trying to be pedantic, but anything following Edouard Manet (~1860s) is considered modern art, especially Impressionism and the other examples on the box.

Are you ever going to finish the Arkham Horror Card Game review?

What we need is more lighting rounds for sure!

I've heard that the newest printing of Babylonia has better token holders? Can someone confirm?

Impressionism is modern art, modern art starts around 1864 and ends around 1970

Great video, I think I like all of these games? Have to give a shout out to High Society for essentially being a flawless game!

He’s designed 700 PUBLISHED board games

While I’m keying these words, Knizia invented 3 more games.

“Knyaz” is not a knight in Russian, it’s more like “King” or “Prince”.

The thing that bothers me about modern art is it makes people devalue modern art

I love this channel so much! This, along with No Rolls Barred and Shut Up And Sit Down, is becoming one of my favorite board game channels!

what was royal visit's previous theme?

Note that later printings of DiceTree version does not include the Korean arts. Those are sold separately now.

I've only just started watching this, but obviously though Reiner Knizia has designed x00 plus general games (really 700 now?) only so-many of them will be board or card games or indeed entirely unique products. The full total will include games within periodicals, mathy and puzzly dice games and plenty of his 're-takes' of out-of-print older games of course. I'd love to hear a ball-park figure for all the reasonably-defined 'original' games by him. Does anyone have one?

Arg worlds collide! The My City intro music is from Playstation Access’ Friday Feature! Arg! The realities are bleeding through! Fantastic video as always - a designer that deserves a half hour coverage.

I have only played two of his games: Lost City and High Society. Fun games and wouldn't mind playing more, but I have a hard time seeking them out.

Great video, as always! What was the awful first version of Royal Visit? Times square? I know nothing about it, but damn my love for controversy! I MUST KNOW!

Knyaz doesn't equal to a knight, it's more of a duke level title, quite a bit higher than a knight.

Maybe the japanese stamp Modern Art is slightly out of budget, but the Oink Games Modern Art looks cute!

We loved My City so much at 3P that we will be buying it again and playing again. Once Delta has burned out. We just let everyone take as much time as they needed each turn though-not a problem at all.

Videos like this are why RU-vid needs the ability to like a video multiple times. The jokes, the reviews, the lightning round. All are amazing work from this duo!

If you recognize the vintage SUSD reference in the opening shot, then you probably have crippling anxiety.

Bloody hell you make me laugh. That you do really good boardgame videos is a pleasant little incidental.

Saucy Sue 👀👀

I'm exhausted just having watched that end credits lightning review, I hope that you had a good lie down and snuggle with Bessie after that Efka! It was a lot of fun seeing you cover several games from one designer like this. It would be interesting to see you do it for another designer one day but that all depends on if there's any other designer that elicits so much love for their work from you?

As someone hailing from the south of Italy raised on olive oil, I was hurt by the comments about oil. Lol

The end of the video was both excellent and stressful. My OCD was off the charts.

That has to be the best intro to a video I've ever seen (and the rest was pretty good too).

Modern art reminds of the Collector by Avalon Hill quite a bit.

My dad has tao copies of… neither of which are the two versions you have. I didnt realize there were so many versions.

Nice John Gets Games shirt. Both this channel and JGG, are great for board game information.

My most played Reiner Knizia game is Pickomino. 😳

Knizia might be my favorite designer. Just so consistent in putting out games that are so much fun.

I can't decide if Reiner Knizia or Klaus Teuber has a better name...

Князь means a prince not a knight.

Taj Mahal was a popular game at our club before lockdown

As soon as the Efka started opening the boxes is when the disaster started.

Only at minute 4, and I'm loving this review. Modern Art: As old as chess. Find the fun in this tiny box.

Samurai and through the desert are also two of my favorite games! When he hits, he really hits.

Damn! What a lightning round. That was amazing work haha

I a simple knizia fan. I see knizia, i click "like"... hard... thanks guys, we need more knizia-awarness around the world

This intro is absolutely fantastic. Great video!

What was the original theme of Royal Visit?

Should I play Yellow & Yangtze instead of Babylonia? These games are so similar...

His card games poison and circus flohcati are both great.

4:30 'Reiner Kinizia likes to make you feel stupid' lol

26:00 “place next to a cigarette”

Efka's face after that hunk joke... perfection.

NPI+Knizia= Love

I'm less inclined to believe the "part" card because its been over a year and we haven't seen the arkham horror lcg part 2

more lightening rounds pls

Nice shirt!

That intro though! Stellar work!

What do you think of the Oink version of Modern Art?

Good idea for a video :)

Какое замечательное, чистое произношение слова KNJAZZ. Now I have serious suspicions about Effja's connections with Russia🤔

Sooo........Part 2 when?

I want to see a parallel universe where tetris doesn’t exist but my city does and see how people react to the use of the S piece and whether the lack of the opposite piece would really be a problem.

I have an ancient iPhone 3 that I've kept, even though I switched to Android phones 12 years ago. I keep it because I have some Knizia games on it that were never available for android, nor are they available for IOS (I'd buy an ipad solely to run Knizia games if the games were available!). Games like: Keltis, Medici, Money, Poison, Ingenious, T&E, Through the Desert, Samurai, High Society, Taj Mahal, Battleline, Ra, Whoowasit?, Labyrinth, Topas, and Skyline. I bet I played >500 games EACH of Keltis (and Keltis: Oracle), Medici, Money, Ingenious, and Poison. I probably have only played 500 games total of all the others combined (I'm not a fan of a couple of them like Whoowasit?, Labyrinth, or Skyline, and Medici I love the app but not a fan of the board game). If even a couple of those games I love so much were available today, I would buy whatever piece of hardware (tablet or phone) necessary to run them! Alas, for whatever reason there were a lot of Knizia's games available 10+ years ago, now days there are less, and they tend to be the "heavier" games, whereas I really enjoyed the

Let's address the elephant in the room: how come battle line/schotten totten and lost cities are not included?