Ticket to Ride
About
The Days of Wonder smash hit from 2004.
Thoughts
Tim:
4/5
A fun game. I'm not sure that it really has all that much strategy, but it does give you the feel that you have multiple options. Add this to some simple and clear instructions and you have a winner.
Laura:
4/5
What a fun game! I like the ability to have two tracks for winning: placing cars as fast as you can before your opponent can finish their assigned routes, or getting extra points by drawing and finishing said routes. One can also play defensively, blocking the other player's ability to place a route between two cities, forcing them to have a more difficult route. I think it's a great two player or small group game, and the routes you draw can either pit the players against each other for the same section of the map, or not at all, as the first time I played, I happened to draw all northern routes while Tim drew all southern routes. It's definitely a fun opener game for a longer game night, or family game for a weekend.
Trivia
- The game won the 2004 Spiel des Jahres, the Origins Award for Best Board Game of 2004, the 2005 Diana Jones award, the 2005 As d'Or Jeu de l'annee, and placed second in the Schweizer Spielepreis for Family Games.
- Since it's debut, they have released over 10 versions of the game with different maps and rules.
11-29-2020