As BGG explains: “Tunnels may require you to pay extra cards to build on them, Ferries require locomotive cards in order to claim them, and Stations allow you to sacrifice a few points in order to use an opponent’s route to connect yours.” This standalone game was the sequel to the original, and it introduced many of the concepts used in later maps. Each company awards bonus points for having the most shares at the end. Ticket to Ride with stocks! Many routes have one or more railroad companies depicted, and players building along those routes claim a stock in one of them. The Rails & Sails maps add a second type of route: not only will players be building railways, they’ll also be building routes for ships! There are cards for each type of route, so players need to balance collecting the two when completing their tickets. There’s a bonus at the end of the game for having the most money. The first to build along a path pays a bridge toll to the bank, and other players will pay the first player to build on that route. Ticket to Ride with currency! This 2-5 player maps is mostly double routes. Honorable Mention (Games That Barely Missed the List): Without further ado, here are 10 Great Ticket to Ride Maps! Those represent the number of voters that put a given map in the #1, #2, and #3 spot, respectively. There’s actually great consensus towards the top of our list.īelow you’ll see designations for gold, silver, and bronze. That wasn’t a rule, but rather how the breakdown naturally worked out. To get on the list took a minimum of five writers rating the map decently well. What’s the takeaway from that? Pretty much all Ticket to Ride maps are pretty great, and our writers liked all of them that are widely available. The last map not to get votes is exclusive to the French market ( Les Aventuriers du Rail Express) and several of us only recently learned of it. Two of them are in exceptionally rare demo copies of the game two aren’t out yet ( Italy, Japan) two are the First Journey children’s edition and one is very recently released ( Poland). Nearly every map received votes that is widely available: the 8 of the 27 that didn’t get votes were that way because they’re not widely available or they’re the children’s versions. We had 12 OG-ers vote, and 19 different maps received votes. We then added up the points for each map and picked the top 10. They could give one a 15, one game a 14, one game an 13, all the way down to giving one a 6. Each member of the OG was offered the chance to vote for up to 10 maps. I put the list together in advance, and I don’t believe anybody found a game I was missing. We’re aiming for an article a month, and I’d love your suggestions about future lists.įor purposes of this project, I simply asked everybody to vote for their 10 favorite Ticket to Ride maps. We here at the Opinionated Gamers then all vote behind the scenes to create a list of 10 great games that meet the criteria. In this case, I picked a series of map expansions. I pick a mechanic, theme, publisher, etc. Today’s article is part of our “10 Great” series that features 10 great games in a given subcategory. Finally, Map Collection 7 will be released at Essen Spiel ’19 and will feature Italy and Japan. The Polish map ( Wsiąść do Pociągu: Polska) was released a few weeks ago, becoming Map Collection #6.5. Ticket to Ride London was released at Gen Con, and we’ll have a review in a few days. There are going to be at least four maps released this year. (For the record, we were working on our list before Ars Technica!) If you want a completionist list of Ticket to Ride products, I enthusiastically recommend this list over at BGG. There are about 27 different maps by our count, but what are the 10 best maps?Īrs Technica recently released an excellent list of every Ticket to Ride map ranked, but they only ranked the 17 maps most available in the US. Ticket to Ride won the Spiel des Jahres in 2004, and then the Europe map won the International Gamers Award in 2005. Ticket to Ride is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and though we’ve written our history of the game, the best account of Ticket to Ride’s past is on an insert in the recently-released 15th Anniversary edition. It was #1 on our list of 50 Modern Classics, and it was #1 on our list of games to play first when entering the hobby. Moon’s Ticket to Ride is one of the favorite games among writers of this site.
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