This one includes some improvements on the original without adding too much in the way of complexity. Ticket to Ride Europe is one of the many games in the popular train themed route building series Ticket to Ride published by Days of Wonder and designed by Alan R Moon. You forget about some of the games that still offer a lot of fun but have been in the cupboard for a while. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in all the newer games in our household. Given she has had so much fun with it I thought it was about time I wrote up our thoughts. It’s a great game for two people, and while it does get more crowded with additional players you can still accomplish a lot of your routes.We have owned Ticket to Ride Europe for over 10 years, but we have had it so long it hasn’t come out much over the last couple of years, until recently when my youngest daughter (8) discovered it and got a bit hooked. It’s the perfect starter game but it’s also a lot of fun once you are more experienced with harder games. We have chosen Ticket to Ride Europe as the first game to play with other couples who haven’t played strategy games and have started their expensive love affair as well. With that being said you could always switch things up and play without long routes sometimes or you could also, the more expensive option, buy the Europa 1912 expansion which offers more long and short routes. This does in a way add another challenge element since after you play it a few times you could become familiar with where the routes run and predict where your fellow players need to get to, but I also feel this gives people who have played a couple times a huge advantage over new players. There aren’t a ton of long route cards (only 6). One of my biggest rating factors for games is replayability, and while I do feel it ranks pretty well on that scale I do think it could be better. I really like that some routes are harder to complete, you can either risk it and hope for the best when it comes to card flips in the undergrounds, or you can plan ahead and have a card or two extra in your hand. Save your stations if you can though because you get bonus points for every train station you haven’t played at the end. This way you can still complete your route. If someone gets a piece of your route built before you, then you can add you train station in to use their section. The final new element of the game is the train stations. Another addition is the ferries where you need at least one locomotive (wild) to complete this route. For every card that you flip that matches the color you are playing you need to play another card of the same color from your hand. Days of Wonder (the creators) listened to these complaints and added in some underground routes where you have to flip 3 extra cards from the top of the train card deck. Some people aren’t a fan of this since it can make the cities a bit harder to find on the board but I really like it, I think it adds to the theme of the game.Ī complaint on the original ticket to ride is that the routes are too easy to complete. One of the first things that I noticed about Ticket to Ride Europe is that the board is really well done, and while the cities are not located exactly where they would be on a real map, it does make you feel like you are really mapping your trip across Europe! They even write the names of each city in the language of that country (i.e.
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