Railroaded!
Last Friday night we had another couple in the ward over for the evening. They brought along their kids, four little blonde-headed boys who are just about the cutest things you've ever seen. We played with them for a while, then set them up with a video (Toy Story, followed by Robin Hood). Meanwhile, we adults went into the kitchen and the other couple introduced us to one of their favorite board games: Ticket To Ride.
It was a lot of fun, and really easy to learn. The object of the game is to build railway routes between cities. It's a card-based game, and you draw different colored cards that let you build on the corresponding colored routes. For example, there are two parallel routes running from Edinburgh to London, one with four black spaces and one with four orange spaces. So to build a route, you need either four black cards or four orange cards. The more cities you can connect, and the longer routes you build, the more points you get.
We enjoyed the game so much we decided we needed to look into getting it ourselves. The other couple mentioned a game shop nearby, one I'd actually seen but never really investigated. So one evening shortly thereafter we made our way to Game Night Games to take a look around. It's a cool store, and they have TONS of games, including several I've never heard of. We found our target game, the original Ticket To Ride‡, right next to the front door. It's one of their top sellers, apparently. Game firmly in hand, we took it home and played it. And while I had the overall longest route, running from Seattle to Washington DC via San Diego, Denver, and Chicago, Nancy had more completed routes that were longer. She beat me handily.
So, if you're in the mood for a fast-paced, challenging, easily learned board game that's as much fun for two as it is for four or five, let me recommend Ticket To Ride. The European version has some extra game-play features that the American version doesn't, but they're both a lot of fun to play. I give them both four out of four train whistles.
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‡We'd played the European edition on our double date night, so we decided to buy the American edition for our own use.
It was a lot of fun, and really easy to learn. The object of the game is to build railway routes between cities. It's a card-based game, and you draw different colored cards that let you build on the corresponding colored routes. For example, there are two parallel routes running from Edinburgh to London, one with four black spaces and one with four orange spaces. So to build a route, you need either four black cards or four orange cards. The more cities you can connect, and the longer routes you build, the more points you get.
We enjoyed the game so much we decided we needed to look into getting it ourselves. The other couple mentioned a game shop nearby, one I'd actually seen but never really investigated. So one evening shortly thereafter we made our way to Game Night Games to take a look around. It's a cool store, and they have TONS of games, including several I've never heard of. We found our target game, the original Ticket To Ride‡, right next to the front door. It's one of their top sellers, apparently. Game firmly in hand, we took it home and played it. And while I had the overall longest route, running from Seattle to Washington DC via San Diego, Denver, and Chicago, Nancy had more completed routes that were longer. She beat me handily.
So, if you're in the mood for a fast-paced, challenging, easily learned board game that's as much fun for two as it is for four or five, let me recommend Ticket To Ride. The European version has some extra game-play features that the American version doesn't, but they're both a lot of fun to play. I give them both four out of four train whistles.
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‡We'd played the European edition on our double date night, so we decided to buy the American edition for our own use.
posted by Michael at
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I can give you some serious recomends on board games. We sold a bunch of the German stuff that is all the rage these day (Settlers of Cataan for instance).
Go ahead and draw on my 5 years of experience working at a game store. :)
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February 09, 2007 8:25 PM
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