#Ticket to ride rules series#

Now, with my second child I can safely say, that I've seen both sides. My oldest son has always had such an easy time playing strategy and detail-oriented games I've always wondered if my experience was similar to other parents. Bonus: Kids will quickly learn place names across North America.

In order to claim a route, players must strategize as to whether to claim a route immediately, or keep their cards to use during a future turn but risk losing the route before that can happen.Points are assigned based on the types and number of routes claimed.During each turn players either claim routes or draw colored cards which all them the possibility of claiming a route in the future.At the start of the game, players draw 'tickets' with routes available for claim. Each route has a different point value.The object is to claim various train routes that criss cross the country. Each player receives a set of train cars.You also need a large playing space for the oversized board. Ticket To Ride takes about 30 to 60 minutes to play.See below for tips on playing with younger children. I recommend the game for kids age 7 and up. The rules are complex, but surprisingly easy to understand. It requires players to put their strategy and planning skills to the test. Ticket To Ride has won a number of international awards. We've played it again and again and you don't even need to have a train obsessed child to enjoy it.

Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe is required to use the maps in this expansion.My son received the Ticket to Ride board game last year as a gift, and it quickly became a favorite family game and perfect for my game of the month series. The player who connects to the most cities in a single network earns a ten point 'Asian Explorer' bonus. Whenever a player claims one of these routes, she must place a train from her reserve in the Mountain Crossing area of the game board, earning two points for each such train but losing access to them for the rest of the game. Legendary Asia from François Valentyne – The main change in this set-up is that some of the routes through Asia are labeled mountain routes, with one or more spaces on the route bearing an X.A team's points are tracked collectively, and the team with the highest score wins. A player can spend her turn to add two tickets from her hand to the cardholder. When a player draws cards, she must place one card in the cardholder and the other in her hand (unless she takes a face-up locomotive, in which case it must be shared) when a player draws tickets, the first ticket kept must be placed in the cardholder and any additional tickets kept added to her hand. Each player has her own secret hand of cards and tickets, in addition to some cards and tickets being placed in a shared cardholder that either player on the team can access.

Moon – Four or six players compete as two-player teams, with teammates sitting next to one another at the table. Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 1 - Team Asia & Legendary Asia presents players with two set-ups on Earth's largest continent: Moon's Ticket to Ride, with each expansion including a double-sided game board and destination tickets and rules for those locations.

#Ticket to ride rules series#

Days of Wonder's Ticket to Ride Map Collection is a series of expansions for Alan R.