Ticket to Ride Review - Have Adventures on a Cross-Country Train Trip!

The game is set on October 2nd, 1900, exactly 28 years after Phileas Fogg, the eccentric Londoner, accepted and conquered the challenge of going around the world in 80 days.

This year, to pay homage to Fogg, we, the players, have made a bet to find out which one of us can travel by train to the highest number of North American cities in just 7 days. The journey starts right away! Are you ready?

Ticket to Ride is played with 2 to 5 players, has an age recommendation of 8 years and up, and was created by the renowned designer Alan R. Moon, the creator of many other games, such as Airlines Europe and Elfenland, besides, of course, all other Ticket to Ride versions. The ones responsible for the artworks are Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean, who is also responsible for other very cool games.

Ticket to Ride is a lesson in geography and history at the same time. Discovering the North American map has never been more fun, with real locations of the towns and even routes that still exist, by the way. Playing this game is finding out that a timezone in a certain North American city is different from yours, and that a certain team or historical place is in a certain town, or that a movie in particular explores the history of a certain town, etc.

Parents and teachers can thoroughly use Ticket to Ride. The sky is the limit!

Mathematically speaking, the constant sum of how many cars are used in a certain route practices addition. Keeping track of scores per car and the value of your Destination Ticket Cards will allow players to predict or anticipate how many points are left to reach or overcome a certain opponent.

You can also work on spacial awareness, because cars score according to the route's length. And knowing where you should start is essential; knowing where you should invest to boost your score is very important, and demands caution and strategy.

Anyway, this game can be thoroughly enjoyed, I'm sure. I recommend you bring Ticket to Ride to your home collection!