Ticket To Ride

Ticket to Ride is the game we hand to families who say they want to try something beyond Monopoly, and it has never once been handed back. Draw cards, claim routes, complete tickets. That is the whole rulebook, and yet the last three turns of a close game are as tense as anything on our shelf. This category is every question we have been asked about it.

Our Ticket to Ride review covers the original USA map and whether it still deserves the hype. The bigger question is which version to buy, and every Ticket to Ride version, ranked answers it. Short version, most people should get Ticket to Ride Europe, and Europe vs. Original explains why in detail.

Once you own it, Ticket to Ride strategy lays out the seven habits that win games. We cover the two-player question and the kids question separately, because the honest answers are more nuanced than the number on the box suggests.