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When playing the Ticket To Ride board game you sure need some luck to get an edge on the other TTR player. But apart from luck, you'll need a strategy to be able to ride on all those routes without making to much detours. A good ticket to ride strategy will always be to try reading other player's mind. What I mean by that is trying to figure out the ticket to ride destination card that are on their hands. An image worth thousand words, so here's an explanation of what I'm writing about. Ticket to ride strategy 1 - Route stealing If you click the ticket to ride map on the right, you will see that the green player first took the route between "Seattle" and "Helena". the second ticket to ride route he took was "Duluth - Chicago". It's fairly easy to assume that this ticket to ride player will later try to connect those two route by taking the route connecting the city "Helena" and "Duluth". So what you should do at th...

F or map and train lovers, here's a collection of what I've found around the net. First you need to know that Ticket To Ride is published in many languages and have very distinct version for each countries. The rules are slightly different and of course the maps and the cities. Ticket To Ride board game have been made for: North America, Europe, Germany, Switzerland and Nordic Countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Ticket To Ride board game covers Ticket To Ride rules around the world So like I mention above, not only the box cover is different, but also the rules. If you take the Ticket To Ride Europe rules , you will find that you can build train station, that some routes are ferries and tunnels, that your final score is based on the train station you built and the European express bonus. But in the Ticket To Ride North American rules , there's no such thing as a train station, tunnel, ferries and express bonus, but instead points for the longest route. The ...

Ticket to ride is not a classic board game yet, but I'm sure it won't take long to become one. Everyone that likes train, map and game should try playing this great board game. The goal in this game of Ticket to ride is to find the best strategies to build railroad path across the land between major cities. This land can be USA, Europe, Germany, Switzerland and the Nordic countries of Europe. For the map lovers out there I have gathered a bunch of Ticket To Ride maps from different countries and will make them available in my next post. So let's check how this train game works. We have the Ticket To Ride board game showing North American cities, railroad path of different color between them, numbers around the TTR board and a legend showing Ticket To Ride wagons and points (see picture - Ticket To Ride game board). And then we have Ticket To Ride wagon cards, Ticket To Ride destination cards and all the little Ticket To Ride plastic train. (Ticket To Ride - Game board) (T...