#Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 3 – The Heart of Africa

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9th August 2022

Pink, Blue, Orange and Lemon were the first to arrive, very soon followed by Plum and Jade.  While they were waiting for food, the group decided to play a couple of quick games.  First up was Moneybags, a game we played for the first time a few months ago.  This is a very quick social deduction game with a similar premise to Ca$h ‘n Guns:  players are a gang of thieves distributing their loot. …

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(Also we have Switzerland but haven't played it. The discarding plastic trains mechanic helps speed up the game and makes it feel more like a race, which is exciting. (Disclaimer: I don't play with the Terrain cards, feels better without 'em.)ġ: Legendary Asia - Kinda my favorite just because there's nothing that annoys me, and all the twists are simple good ones. It doesn't feel like the fairest version, but it always makes me smile. And, the mandala mechanic adds more choices, and acts as a catch-up possibility.Ģ: Africa - The board is cleverly organized into color-themed areas here, which makes this map hilariously memorably challenging. It's obviously luck based, but so is the real game, this helps you appreciate the randomness.ģ: India - Since it's all mostly small segments, and so intricate, it always feels like there are a lot of choices. I should buy the 1910 stuff.Ĥ: New York - I love fast board games, and this is a good one. Still, playing across the USA feels so right. But I think tunnels are a terrible mechanic.ĥ: USA - Just doesn't feel balanced: the long horizontal cards are so powerful, and the 6-long segments are so powerful. Also, TTR should be shorter, not longer.ħ: World (Rails and Sails) - Slightly preferred over Great Lakes, only because going around the World is cool and novel.Ħ: Europe - It's a good big map that feels fresh every time, and stations are a good friendly twist. The tickets are not balanced well without the money rules though.Ĩ: Great Lakes (Rails and Sails) - Pretty fun, but doesn't feel very interactive. Losing money hurts, but gaining money doesn't feel that great. Doesn't look like the map would work without the new mechanics, either.ĩ: Netherlands - An interesting concept that isn't that fun in practice, IMO. We should try it again without the stocks, maybe.ġ0: United Kingdom - Way too much work, and longer fiddly turns that felt out of place. Also, tunnels are bad.ġ1: Pennsylvania - A lot of work, and the stocks game undermines the Ticket to Ride game, in my opinion. We should try it again without that rule. Visit Metro Transit Regular Route Service for a map of bus stop locations.

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The UK map requires 35 trains, the Pennsylvania map requires 45 trains, and Nordic Countries contains 40 of each colour (with 5 spare).Disappointed they didn't try harder to explain the rankings, so here's mine of what I played, quickly:ġ2: Team Asia - We found it extremely frustrating that you weren't allowed to talk to your teammate. For details on schedules, bus ride pricing, how to buy bus tickets and more. However use with Nordic Countries would be limited to three players and use of spare trains. Despite the name, the map covers both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, that is, the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.Īlthough officially an expansion for Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe, this could be used for Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Players can also buy bonus cards that allow them to score extra points for taking certain actions during play. Game description from the publisher: Set in the vast wilderness of Africa at the height of its exploration by intrepid explorers, missionaries and adventurers, Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 3 - The Heart of Africa, a single-sided expansion map for Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe, focuses on the central and southern 'heart' of the continent displayed in a vertical format. By spending wild cards, players gain the ability to build routes three trains long or longer, in addition to being able to build ferries across water and build train routes in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. At the start of the game, players can build only one- and two-train routes and only in England. The United Kingdom half of this map collection introduces the concept of technology to TtR. At the end of the game, whoever holds more shares of a company than all other players receives points as a reward. Each time that a player completes a route, they claim a share of one of the companies depicted next to that route. The Pennsylvania half of this map collection adds a share mechanism to the basic TtR game. Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 5 – United Kingdom & Pennsylvania contains a double-sided game board with new rules for use with Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe with players now creating train lines in the British Isles and in Pennsylvania.

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16th December 2021

Ivory, always excitable when it comes to Christmas, was first to arrive, shortly followed by Blue and Pink, with armfuls of crackers, parcels, party poppers and Golden GOAT voting forms. It was our first visit to The Jockey since the retirement of the Charles and Anna, but Michelle and John made us very welcome on their first full day, and were very understanding of the noise mess we inevitably…

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17th August 2021 (Online)

17th August 2021 (Online)

Although the test event at the Horse and Jockey was very successful last week, we decided to continue online for another week.  So, after the usually chatter (mostly centred on the subject of revenge for the drubbing some of us got from Pine in playing the Heart of Africa expansion to Ticket to Ride), we moved on to the evening’s “Feature Game“.  One of the more popular games that we have played…

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12th August 2021 (Post-Covid Test Event)

12th August 2021 (Post-Covid Test Event)

After some discussion, we had decided to have a “test visit” to The Jockey.  As they are not doing food on Tuesdays at the moment, this was a Thursday and we decided to make it a fairly light event filled with some of our favourite games.  Those that arrived early started with food and Burgundy was able to order Ham, Egg and Chips for the first time in over a year.  There was a boisterous…

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25th June 2019

It was lovely to see Burgundy back after his long lay-off, and the staff at The Jockeywere thrilled to provide him with his ham, egg and chips once more.  While people finished eating there was a bit of chit chat, which extended into lots and lots of chit chat after people had finished eating.  Green explained that this was likely his last visit until September, while Lime commented that he had…