Ticket to Ride game
Ticket to Ride is one of the most popular board games of the moment. The Ticket to Ride series consists of a lot of different board games with a train theme. In the original Ticket to Ride game, players try to build train routes to claim routes between different cities in North America. You collect points with the routes you take. But of course there is also a catch: if you don't know how to find the routes, you lose points!Ticket to Ride Europe
The most popular version of this board game is Ticket to Ride Europe . In this variant you go on a new train adventure through the largest cities in Europe. New in this version of Ticket to Ride are the tunnels, for which you have to collect extra train cards. At the end of your game, have you collected the most points with your train network? Then you are the winner! Ticket to Ride Europe is the Dutch, stand-alone version of the original board game Ticket to Ride.Ticket to Ride My First Journey
Ticket to Ride is a real family game, but the little ones may find it difficult to keep up with the basic game. There is a special children's version especially for this purpose:Ticket to Ride My First Journey . This game is a simplified version of Ticket to Ride and is easy and quick to teach kids. Collect cards of different colors and use them to build train routes on the board. Will you get the most destination tickets? Then you win the game!Ticket to Ride My First Journey is the perfect introduction to the Ticket to Ride board games and is suitable for 6 years and older.Standalone Ticket to Ride games
These Ticket to Ride games are standalone and contain everything you need. They are not expansions, but complete games. Choose your favorite!
Ticket to Ride extensions
Ticket to Ride is a wonderful and addictive family game. There's a good chance that you'll soon be looking for extensions to this popular board game! Fortunately, there are enough. Ticket to Ride Asia adds mountain routes and on the other side of the board you can play the game with 6 players (in team variant). Ticket to Ride India adds round trips, where you get extra points if your route is completely circular. Ticket to Ride Africa has many single routes that make train travel more difficult and the game contains special cards that allow you to double your score. Ticket to Ride Netherlands adds toll to the game; You have to pay a toll to be the first to build a route and if someone wants to lie next to you, they have to pay you a toll.
With Ticket to Ride UK/Pennsylvania, United Kingdom adds technological advancement (industrial revolution), so you can only build some routes if you own the technology and with Pennsylvania you have shares that you can earn for extra points with a majority. Ticket to Ride France/Old West adds striped routes that must be colored before you can build over them (France) and with Old West you can only build from your own cities. Ticket to Ride Japan/Italy adds a high-speed train to Japan and ferries to Italy. In Ticket to Ride Polska you have to try to make connections with your neighboring countries for extra points.
Which base game do you need?
Please note, because not all standalone Ticket to Ride games are suitable for an expansion. The major expansions can be combined with the basic games Ticket to Ride Europe , Ticket to Ride Germany and Ticket to Ride USA . You need the train cards, trains and pawns for these games to play the expansions. You cannot use the other independent versions for an extension.
1910 and 1912
And then you have the small expansions Ticket to Ride USA 1910 and Ticket to Ride Europa 1912 . Ticket to Ride USA 1910 is an expansion for Ticket to Ride USA and adds new routes to the game. Ticket to Ride Europa 1912 is an expansion for Ticket to Ride Europa and adds 3 new variants and Warehouses and Depots (two new game elements for extra strategic options for all versions of Ticket to Ride).
Which Ticket to Ride is the most fun?
In our humble opinion
Best basic game: Ticket to Ride Europe
Best with 2 players: Ticket to Ride Nordic Country
Best for the die-hard fan: Ticket to Ride Rails & Sails
Best extension: Ticket to Ride India (tours) Ticket to Ride Japan (High Speed Train) Ticket to Ride Asia (team variant) Ticket to Ride UK/Pennsylvania (technology)