However, the ease of learning Ticket to Ride has unfortunately come with a con - the strategy is somewhat limited.
This is another thing that makes Ticket to Ride work well with all ages from 8 through adults with limited attention spans. Each turn goes pretty quickly, and so there are not the long pauses in between turns where players can get disengaged.
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This is nice, because the number of board games that actually include strategy but are able to play with younger children is somewhat limited.Īnother pro is that Ticket to Ride is fairly fast paced and engaging. This game could easily be taught to any level of board gamer, and would even be ideal to play with younger children (Days of Wonder recommends age 8+). In fact, the instructions are 2 pages front and back (with a lot of pictures). The first pro is that the game is incredibly easy to learn. Ticket to Ride has several pro's and con's. On any given turn a player can draw train cards for use in building railroads later, they can build a connection from one city to another if they have the appropriate number of matching train cards, or they can draw new "Destination cards" which will give them two cities that they can score points for connecting.
In Ticket to Ride, each player is attempting to build the most well rounded network of railroads by connecting various cities together. Continuing with my recent theme of Days of Wonder games, its time to review Ticket to Ride.