Join Meeple Mountain in celebrating Dr. Reiner Knizia’s 40 year board game career by journeying through his game portfolio, from A to Z. This time it's the letter B!

Note: We’ll only be using the commonly accepted, 26-letter English alphabet. Ns with tildes and double Ls and accented vowels are all very cool, but not eligible for this particular ranking.

Like the other Phoenician letters, the ancient B was probably adapted from an Egyptian glyph and named for a ... making it look like a backwards modern B. Around 600 BCE, they flipped the letter, ...