One of my all time favorite games is Ticket To Ride. So of course when I heard there was a new expansion, I couldnt wait to get it. When I found out it was The United Kingdom and Pennsylvania I was even more excited but confused on the 2 choices. But its Ticket To Ride so I didn’t care.
I have not played The Uk side yet. It seems to be way more complex of a game then I’m use to the series being. But it looks awesome. We did play The Pennsylvania side and thats what I will be talking about. It is for 2-5 players with a special variant for a 2 player game. We played with 4 players.
It is like your basic Ticket To Ride except playing this map uses a deck of Stock Shares, representing actual historical railroads that operated in the region shown on the map. When a player completes a route on the map, they have the opportunity to “invest” in a company through the use of the Stock Shares, with control of each company awarding bonus points at the end of the game. The bonus points are based on who has the most of that particular stock , the second most gets a little less points and so on. I really liked this addition and the map is fun learning new routes. The thing we struggled with is the scoring of the Train routes you put down. The rules are not very explicit nor is there a scoring chart like with all the other versions. We went ahead and scored them as to trying to find the answer out online, many people divided. No official word yet, that I could find from Days Of Wonder. So if you hear, let us know? So we went ahead and scored them like you do in the other games. We found that doing this there were a ton of points scored in the game. We will try again next time and just score routes and stocks and see if it changes game play too much.
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Ticket to Ride Map Collection Volume 5 : United Kingdom Board Game
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