As an American Anglophile with plenty of other claims on my money, I doubt I’ll ever have the chance to travel abroad in London, Berlin, and Essen (if only!), but I can imagine myself doing so when I play this game. The first thing I love about Ticket to Ride: Europe is the map. And you know what? I like it even better than its predecessor. Yes, it’s derivative from Ticket to Ride, but it doesn’t claim to be anything else. Ticket to Ride: Europe is the Ticket to Ride game I am most familiar with. Long routes are only given at the beginning of the game.Īll other rules of Ticket to Ride remain the same. (Only one station can be used per city, and only one unowned track can be used per station.) Each unused station is worth four points at the end of the game, so it behooves players to achieve their destinations “naturally.”įourth twist: routes are divided into long and short routes, so each player should generally have the same opportunity to claim big points at the start of the game. Third twist: each player’s supply has three “stations,” which players can place on cities to use tracks that are not their own. To claim these tracks, players must have a number of locomotive cards to combine with their set of cards. There are also ferry tracks (which, as you might guess, go across water). If any of these cards match the color, the claiming player must use additional cards to claim the track. In order to claim a tunnel, players must first reveal the color of train cards they wish to use to claim the track, then three cards are revealed from the top of the deck.
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Because you can’t always see your way to the end of the tunnel when you enter it, tunnel tracks can be of varying lengths. Second twist: there are certain special tracks on the map, namely tunnels and ferries. The western side of the map is more cluttered with shorter tracks between cities, and these tracks are snapped up quickly. Ticket to Ride: Europe features exotic destinations from London and Paris to Pamplona and Madrid to Rome and Athens to Moscow and Petrograd. It doesn’t usually work.)įirst twist: you’re not in Kansas anymore. Who needs to play when you can just look at this? (This is a tactic I use on my opponents. You do this by playing sets of colored train cars to claim corresponding tracks on the board.
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Ticket to Ride: Europe is a standalone game (meaning everything you need to play is included in the box) and works much the same as regular Ticket to Ride ( full explanation here): the goal is to get the most points by connecting cities on your destination tickets and by having the longest continuous segment of tracks. So where does Ticket to Ride: Europe (a standalone game) fall on the spectrum? Find out below! For every Prosperity, there’s a Catapult. But spin-offs and expansions can be of variable quality. Such is the case with Ticket to Ride, a game that and I uncharacteristically agreed upon and raved about here. Or something else that allows the company that produced said popular game to capitalize on its good fortune.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a board game in possession of a large fan base must be in want of a spin-off. As I usually play with green, I am the tall man with a top hat, cane, and monocle.