This review builds on the book of Golub, Köhler and Skopenko, last updated in 1986, and our structural understanding of this family has dramatically improved over the intervening decades due to dedicated efforts of synthetic inorganic chemists and the significant advances in characterization. I anticipate that the continuing efforts of chemists, supported by the growing power of computation, means that a review of metal thiocyanates in 2060 will be much broader in the chemistry and deeper in its understanding.