The complete Ticket to Ride
Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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Ticket to Ride is frequently recommended as a great gateway game and I've seen it used effectively as such. There are quite a few different games and expansions in the series now and I wanted to collect BGG community opinion on them.
So, what are the Ticket to Ride games and expansions that you consider great or terrible, and why. Please vote on the polls, but leave a comment on the items if you feel the answers don't quite capture what you'd like to say. Don't forget to thumb your personal favourite items.
Winners of poll competition: mccann98 (3GG), and runners up The_Piper, jonocop and red turtle.
I have some other game series and expansions polls
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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The original Ticket to Ride game. Criticised for balance issues with some routes and for the teeny tiny cards, it's still a best-selling game.
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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This expansion to the basic Ticket to Ride adds new destination tickets (And larger sized cards)
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: 1910
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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Set on a map of turn of the century Europe (with local names), the geography of this map might be a little unfamiliar, but the game is still the Ticket to Ride we love.
This map adds a couple of new elements including station houses that allow players to sacrifice a few points to make use of another player's track, and tunnels which add an element of risk to building as they may require extra cards.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: Europe
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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A new mini-expansion similar to the 1910 Expansion for the original ticket to ride except aimed at Ticket to Ride: Europe. This one adds a whole new series of destination cards as well as the new Warehouses pieces which can be used with any TTR game.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride; Europa 1912
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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Names after the popular German model train maker, this game is played on a map of Germany with the edges of some neighboring countries. It adds passengers to the games which players try to move around in addition to completing routes as in a normal TTR game. For extra novelty, the board is in portrait orientation.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: Marklin
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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The Switzerland map was released as an expansion because it lacked the train pieces and train cards necessary to play (Europe or 1910 were sufficient to play). In all other respects it's a full game. It has tunnels like Europe (Switzerland has many tunnels), but adds special destination cards that require paris of neighboring countries to be connected rather than specific cities.
This was the first specific 2-3 player map.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride; Switerzerland
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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Initially released just in the Nordic countries it represents, this game was released to some controversy in English last year and is now easily available. It is a complete game but suited for 2-3 players and contains non-standard train colours and a winter themed train card deck.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride; Nordic Countries
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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These handful of alternative tickets released as a limited Essen expansion added some non-destination actions such as doubling another ticket or looking through the ticket pile as options.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: Mystery Train
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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This expansion replaces the set/card collection mechanic with dice rolling providing railroad dice and a special dice cup. It may be telling that this even received a scathing review from Tom Vasel 
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: Dice Expansion
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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This rather distant member of the family replaces the board and nifty plastic trains with a memory element of keeping track of what cards you've managed to accumulate in your stacks.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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In a fit of whimsy, I just developed the all new Ticket to Ride: The Catapult expansion. It probably took more time than the Dice Expansion. The title of this item is a link to the thread where I discuss the rules and how to play. We're a bit short of pictures because noone has tried it yet.
This expansion adds dexterity, luck, and the phrase "Catapult the Choo-Choo" to the game, as well as allowing more direct player interaction and a way to get back links you've been blocked from. Even better, the inevitable loss of pieces will sell more games for Days of Wonder.
So, on to the poll.
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Poll:
Ticket to Ride: The Catapult
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Bruce Murphy
Australia
Pyrmont
NSW
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Don't forget to thumb the list if you want to enter the competition!
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