Cool list! Definitely different tastes, even within this one designer's oeuvre; just goes to show how impressive he is! Mine would be: 1. Yellow & Yangtze 2. Through the Desert 3. Medici 4. Ra 5. Orongo 6. Stephenson's Rocket 7. Rapido/Excape 8. Voodoo Prince 9. Botswana 10. High Society
High Society is my favorite Knizia game! I always feel like I’ll be judged for saying that, so I’m happy it ranked so well on your list! I feel vindicated.
I think Samurai is one of my favorites. I still have a lot of his top games i need to play (T&E, Ra, Amun-Re). I like Kingdoms and Battle Line a lot too and we're gonna play El Dorado tonight!
Very cool list. I wish I could see a top 10 Vladimir Suchy games next, I was recently searching for a list about him (cos I really loved every single game I played from him) and couldnt find any on RU-vid. Maybe you guys could consider doing it on a future video? 🥺
No Modern Art? If there’s any doubt Knizia is one of the all-time greats, the ability to make a top-10 list and leave off one of the best games of all time is incredible. He’s amazing. I need to try High Society!
If I were to pick my absolute favs: 1. Ra 2. Blue Moon Legends 3. Tigris & Euphrates 4. Samurai 5. Kingdoms / Beowulf [for 2 players!] 6. The Quest for El Dorado 7. The Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation 8. Carcassonne: The Castle 9. Amun Re 10. My Island Honorable mentions: Medici vs Strozzi, Through the Desert, Modern Art, Traumfabrik
Very good job! The Knizia games I own are: LLAMA, High Society, Lost Cities, Pumafiosi, Royal Visit, Taj Mahal, Whale Riders, Battle Line, Ingenious, Medici, Quest for El Dorado, Through the Desert, King’s Road, Ra, Modern Art, Tower of Babel, Blue Lagoon, My City, Samurai ➕Medici: The Card Game.
Shotten Totten or Battlelines (minor variations on each other). Quo Vadis or the more recent Zoo Vadis reskin. But for quick, easy, and surprisingly good nothing beats En Guarde, his ultra-simple but ultra-subtle fencing game of moving closer or further from your opponent to try to land an unparried hit.
Amun Re is our group favourite, but he's also released the fantastic auction game Reif für die Insel this last year which basically combines elements of High Society, Amun Re and Karate Tomate. Loads of silly fun. Great to see Witchstone on this list too. Its amazing but passed soany people by.
Yellow & Yangtze (where the new version is Huang) is my favorite but I was extremely surprised about the very recently shipped Cascadero. Cascadero has like the simplest of rules but sooooo strategic that my friends and I were pleasantly exhausted after the first play XD
Thanks for the list! Another idea: Top 10 Least Favorite Knizia Games… Again, when you have designed over 600 games, there are going to just be some that aren’t as good of a design - and/or didn’t hit with you!
I only know about The Lord of the Rings, and LOTR Confrontation. Tigris & Euphrates, High Society, The Quest For El Dorado and Ra look interesting though.
So many good games, so many I’ve not played, but my top 10 is High Society Schotten Totten Mille Fiori Marabunta El Dorado Lost Cities Blue Lagoon My City Ra Babylonia