Ticket To Ride Board Game – Around The Board In 50 Minutes

The Ticket To Ride board game has been a popular game for quite a few years now. It has even had expansion sets made to add extra detail and playability to the game and also new locations to discover. The game would make a great Christmas toy for kids and adults a like that like the intrigue and imagination that a great board game fosters. The game is suitable for kids from 8 years and up.

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This game has become a classic in the style of Monopoly and Risk. It is not overly complex which is great for younger children but has an addictive game play that intrigues one and all.

The basic premise behind the game is to travel all over the North American continent via train. It is set in the time when train travel was the best way to travel long distances – around the beginning of the 20th century. No doubt the setting and theme are inspired by the Jules Verne book around the world in 80 days.

The idea is to travel to the most destinations or build train routes to each destination. The person at the the end of the game that has visited the most destinations or has the most train routes (or a combination of both) is the winner.

The board is a map representation of the North American continent with various cities as destinations. Linking the cities are train routes that vary in length. Each route will have one or many links. Longer routes have more links and are worth more points when you own them.

Players are given around 45 train car blocks that they place on links along the routes. You are said to own a route when all the links are filled by your train car blocks. And this is also a way to get to your destination cities.

The game play strategy comes in when you block your opponents from getting to their destination or owning a route. But of course you have to reach your own destinations too and even build your routes. So it is a trade off which makes the game play highly addictive and fun.

What's more, the game play is easy to pick up and even young kids will understand how to play quickly   and soon be developing the nuanced strategies needed to be successful.

The game is well produced and quick to set up. It is made for 2 to 5 players to play at any one time and  could take around 30 to 60 minutes to play based on how quickly the game play goes.

The game play is determined by picking up cards, either destination cards of train route cards. When all the cards are used up, the game has come to an end and the person with the most point is the winner.

There is a Europe version of the game which uses the map of Europe as the setting. And you can get an expansion pack for the original game that adds more destinations to the original map and makes the game play more complex. The expansion pack is great for people that already have the game and in fact you need the original Ticket to Ride game to use the expansion pack.

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