

Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails - The Biggest Game Yet Designed specifically for smaller groups and focusing on what has made other Ticket to Ride games successful, this is a well-balanced map that’s great for couples or other board gaming duos. Most Ticket to Ride maps can scale down for two or three players, but Nordic Countries is one of the few where that’s a good idea. Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries - Great for Two Players First Journey is available with either a USA or Europe map, and there are no major differences between the maps. Cities have easily recognisable landmarks to help kids find their way across the board and the quick pace stops them from losing focus. Kids will enjoy this simplified game as they race to complete tickets and claim the Golden Ticket. Tabletop Matt Thrower + 1 more Ticket to Ride: First Journey - Great for Kids Ticket to Ride: Europe is not only the best starting point for newcomers, it’s one of the best Ticket to Ride maps available. Stations help you complete destination tickets in the hotly contested western portion of the board, high-value long destination tickets encourage you to expand into the more open eastern portion of the board, while ferries and tunnels make it more difficult to complete certain routes. Ticket to Ride: Europe - The Perfect Place to StartĪ fantastic map that adds a handful of new rules to create more interesting decisions. If you find the undersized train and destination ticket cards difficult to shuffle, you can replace them with the larger cards from the USA 1910 expansion. Every other Ticket to Ride game introduces their own twist to the formula and - while they’re often enjoyable because of those twists - there is a simple pleasure in just collecting cards and laying train routes. The greatest strength of the original North American Ticket to Ride map is that it’s just Ticket to Ride. Ticket to Ride - A Classic Still Worth Owning The player trains and game cards from Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe are needed to play this expansion.But we're here to help! Below are our picks for which version of Ticket to Ride to buy, the best (and worst) Ticket to Ride expansions, along with a comprehensive guide of what to expect from every Ticket to Ride product. To cover a wave symbol, you must play a locomotive or a ferry card from your hand (in addition to the other cards needed to claim this route) a ferry card is a special type of card that can be drafted on its own on your turn, and it contains two wave symbols, so it can be used on its own to cover two symbols on a route. On this game board, all gray routes are ferry routes, with these routes having 1-4 spaces marked with a wave symbol. The board also introduces a new type of ferry route. If you have separate networks, then you score each one separately.

In Italy, the game board is divided into regions, and players score bonus points based on how many regions they connect in their network, with three regions - Sardegna, Sicilia, and Puglia - counting as two regions in your tally. You might have a ticket that lists a city outside Tokyo and a station with Tokyo, and you need to complete a route from that other city to Tokyo, then from the central Tokyo station to that particular subway station. This game board also has a small inlay for the Tokyo subway system, so players are effectively working on two networks at once.

At the end of the game, whoever has contributed the most to this shared project receives the largest bonus, with the player who contributes least being penalized. To claim such a route, discard a number of cards equal to the length of the route with all the card being the same color, then mark the route with a single Bullet Train miniature instead of scoring points for such a route, advance your marker on the separate Bullet Train track as many spaces as the length of this route. In the Japan half of the expansion, some routes are reserved for the Bullet Train network, and once such a route is claimed, it can be used by all players to complete destination tickets.
TICKET TO RIDE MAP SERIES
Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 7 – Japan & Italy includes a double-sided game board - the longest yet in the Map Collection series - that features Japan on one side and Italy on the other.
