One of the crucial strategies in Ticket to Ride is to prioritize completing your destination tickets. The game also requires players to take into consideration their opponents’ moves, as they compete for limited resources and valuable routes. Players must decide which routes to claim, which destinations to focus on, and when to draw new destination tickets. Ticket to Ride requires careful planning and strategy. Cards are printed on high quality card-stock so won’t be too easily bendable or disfigured. It is one of those games that you might benefit from sitting on the right side of the table as viewing the board upside down can be a little confusing and hard to read (especially with city names).
The game board whether it’s a map of North America or Europe is clear and mostly easy to read. The game also comes with a comprehensive and easy to understand rulebook, as well as helpful reference guides for new players. Game pieces are high quality, while the game board and cards are elegantly illustrated.
Ticket to Ride is a very aesthetic game, it’s pleasing to look at and pleasing to play with. Points are earned based on the number of trains used to complete a route, the points dictated on the destination tickets and through bonuses like longest route. The game continues until a player reaches their final two train cars, at this point each player gets one more turn. Train cards on the other hand, are coloured cards and act as a resource that allow players to claim routes and place their train cars on the board.ĭuring each turn, players can draw two regular train cards face up or face down, one face up locomotive (rainbow) card, claim a route by playing the necessary train cards, or draw three destination tickets – choosing a minimum of 1 to keep. The destination tickets indicate the cities the player wishes to connect, players can choose which destination tickets they want to pursue but have to stick to a minimum number of tickets depending on what version or extension you’re playing. To begin the game, each player selects their colour and receives a set of train cars, destination tickets, and train cards. The winner is the player that’s managed to pick up the most points along the way, whether that be through destination tickets, the routes themselves, or bonuses like longest route. The objective of the game is to score the most points by connecting cities via train routes across a large map. Ticket to Ride is a game that can be played by 2 to 5 players and typically lasts between 30 to 60 minutes. This in itself makes the game one you can play again and again, but there’s plenty of reasons more as well which I’ll delve into in the rest of this review. Much like many board games, Ticket To Ride is a game that’s relatively easy to pick up and more challenging to master. The game offers a unique and challenging experience as you attempt to complete train routes across a vast landscape, whether that be in the classic North America or European version. Ticket To Ride a board game about building railway routes around the continent is an almost surprisingly delightful game to play both for the more experienced and more casual player.
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