If you are looking for a family-friendly, easy-to-learn, and award-winning board game, then learn the Ticket to Ride board game rules to see if this could be the perfect game for you.
Ticket to Ride is straightforward to learn, quick to play, and with the perfect amount of action and tension to keep players (of all abilities) engaged. With elegantly simple gameplay, it takes around 15 minutes to learn the game and between 30 – 60 minutes to play it.
We rate Ticket to Ride highly as an indoor group game for kids to play and love the Geographical and Historical learning that can come with the game, making it educational and fun.
If you love board games, trains, competition, and travel, then you’ll love this game!
Read on to find out how to play Ticket to Ride.
What is Ticket to Ride?
It is a cross-country train adventure game, with various editions available to include different countries, eras, and age levels. Players collect different types of train cards that let them take ownership of railway routes to connect various cities along the way.
The player with the most cities, or longest route, wins the game.
Ticket to Ride has previously been nominated for and won a series of awards, including Origins Best Board Game 2005 and the International Board Game Award in the multiplayer category.
Number of Players: 2 to 5 players.
Ages: Recommended 8 Years and Over
Difficulty: Easy
Length of Play: 30 – 60 Minutes
Similar To: Ticket to Ride First Journey, Trans America, Pan Am, Railroad Ink, Carcassonne.
Main Objective: Claim routes, complete a continuous path of routes between 2 cities listed on your Destination Tickets, complete the longest continuous route.
Why We Love it: The big format board game features high-quality illustrations that are interesting to look at while waiting for your turn, thus, preventing boredom in younger children.
The game is easy to learn, great fun to play and can provoke engaging, educational debates with kids. The balance of action, adventure, strategy, and luck is perfect. We can’t fault this game.
A Brief History of Ticket to Ride
Ticket to Ride was published by Days of Wonder in 2004. Very soon after, the game began to receive numerous nominations and awards, being received very well across the world. To date, it’s one of its most popular board games.
The original version is a board depicting a railway map of the USA and Southern Canada, but quickly Days of Wonder produced different versions, including other countries, cities, time eras, and a simpler version for younger kids; First Journey, for ages 6+.
The game nearly didn’t make it after its creator; Alan R Moon grew tired of designing table-top board games to receive no interest. After a childhood spent enjoying playing games of Risk with his family, he wanted to recreate this for others.
Alan R Moon came up with the concept of Ticket to Ride during a morning walk. As a last-ditch attempt to make it in the world of board games, he sent the design to 3 different publishers, only 1 replied.
Thankfully, the interested publishers were highly interested. A year after their initial meeting with Alan R Moon, the Ticket to Ride game we know and love today was born.
