Cubes in Kraków

Polish publisher Muduko invited Reiner to visit the BookGame Fair in Kraków in March 2025 and spend a day with interviewers and fans.

On the fair, a group of Rubik’s Cube artists wowed the crowd by twisting and turning hundreds of cubes each day to create a giant pixelated masterpiece. On Saturday, with Reiner as the fair’s special guest, their swift fingers flew into action, solving and assembling exactly 1,008 cubes to form a massive portrait of Reiner. After more than two hours of signing game boxes and posing for photos with a sea of enthusiastic fans, Reiner finally got to admire the cube-crafted version of his face, clearly impressed, though possibly wondering if his nose really was that square.

To round off the day, Reiner played the new version of Whale Riders – just published by Muduko with new artwork under the title Trakty i Kontrakty – in the finals against the two best players of the day’s Knizia Games Tournament. The final was won by a 12-year-old girl. Congratulations!