But in New York they’ve chosen to trim away the excess and pare down Ticket to Ride to its most base concept: route efficiency and point maximization.īecause there are fewer points on the map and fewer pieces the game plays more rapidly, but that reduction in time adds tension. The original Ticket to Ride is such a good game, and Days of Wonder has been continually building upon that framework over the past decade: adding new features, expansion content, and stand alone games like a sculptor slowly creating a face from raw clay. The player with the most points wins the game.įinal Thoughts on Ticket to Ride: New York Players then subtract points for each incomplete Destination Ticket card. Players receive points for each completed segment on the board, each completed Destination Ticket, and every Tourist Attraction they’ve connected to. Unlike other Ticket to Ride games, in Ticket to Ride: New York scoring only happens at the end of the game. When one player has fewer than three pieces remaining, the game end is triggered and each player gets one last turn. Play continues around the table drawing Destination Ticket cards when necessary, drawing and playing Transportation cards to match your Destination cards, and placing your taxis on the board. That’s right, even though Ticket to Ride is a “train game”, in New York taxis take center stage. To place taxis on the green route, any combination of green cards or wild cards can be played. After playing the correct number and color of Transportation cards, players place their colored taxi markers on the matching colored route. They must then connect those two routes by drawing and using appropriately colored Transportation cards from a shared display. Players draw Destination Ticket cards which feature two points in Manhattan. Players earn extra points for connecting to Tourist Attractions like Times Square and the Empire State Building.Destination Ticket point values range from 2-8.The longest route is 4 spaces (Chelsea to Soho) which means the maximum route score is 7 points.Scoring only happens at the end of the game.Players only draw 2 Destination Ticket cards instead of 3.The map is much smaller, approximately ⅓ to ¼ the size of the original board.Players have 15 pieces instead of 45 as in the original game.Here’s a summary of what’s changed for people who’ve played other Ticket to Ride games: If you’d like to find out how the game is played, or what differences New York has from other TtR games then keep on reading. If you’d just like to read what I thought about Ticket to Ride: New York, feel free to jump to the bottom. With this most recent Target exclusive stand alone game, Days of Wonder is ratcheting down the scale and ramping up the fun, plopping players down in the heart of Manhattan in the 1950s. Days of Wonder have come out with stand alone versions set in Europe and Germany, expansion boards set in India, Africa, Asia and the state of Pennsylvania. It features exquisitely detailed artwork, bright colorful pieces, and clever gameplay. There’s a reason why Ticket to Ride has sold millions of copies. It’s a wonderful game about building train routes across the United States in the early 1900s. If you’ve never had a chance to play Ticket to Ride (TtR), a titan of the board game world, then you’re missing out.
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