Ticket to Ride is a modern board game in which players collect matching sets of colored train cards to claim railway routes across a map, connecting cities and completing secret destination tickets to score points. It was designed by Alan R. Moon and first published in 2004 by Days of Wonder. The game is widely credited, alongside titles such as Catan, with helping to popularize modern designer board games with a broad, non-hobbyist audience, and it has since been released in many geographic map editions.
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Originating Region Game TypeBoard game, route-building strategy (Eurogame) 2 Governing BodyNo governing body; commercially owned and organized by its publisher, Days of Wonder. 2 Playing Time Skill or Luck Age Suitability PublisherADC Blackfire Entertainment 3 PublisherEnigma (Bergsala Enigma) 3 Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicNetwork and Route Building 3 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Sport
Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia, Ticket to Ride (board game)
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1. Wikipedia (French): Les Aventuriers du Rail
Wikipedia (French)Article text (player count)Quote, Article text (player count)
se joue de 2 à 5 joueurs
2. Wikipedia, Ticket to Ride (board game)
WikipediaLead section, first sentence
Ticket to Ride is a series of turn-based strategy railway-themed Eurogames designed by Alan R. Moon, the first of which was released in 2004 by Days of Wonder.
Sales section
Ticket to Ride was first published in the United States by an American company, Days of Wonder.
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Moderate
Infobox: ages
6+ ("First Journey" versions) 8+ (general) 10+ (Rails and Sails and Legends of the West versions)
Ancestor Of: Ticket to Ride: Europe, Gameplay
The gameplay is based on the format of the original 2004 game's rules
View the Source 3. Ticket to Ride (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 60
- Designer: Alan R. Moon
- Publisher: ADC Blackfire Entertainment
- Publisher: asmodee
- Publisher: Asterion Press
- Publisher: Bandai Co., Ltd.
- Publisher: Boardgame Space
- Publisher: Days of Wonder
- Publisher: Edge Entertainment
- Publisher: Enigma (Bergsala Enigma)
- Publisher: Galápagos Jogos
- Publisher: Giochi Uniti
- Publisher: Happy Baobab
- Publisher: Hobby Japan
- Publisher: Hobby World
- Publisher: Kaissa Chess & Games
- Publisher: Korea Boardgames
- Publisher: Lautapelit.fi
- Publisher: Rebel Sp. z o.o.
- Publisher: Siam Board Games
- Publisher: Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.
- Game Category: Trains
- Game Mechanic: Connections
- Game Mechanic: Contracts
- Game Mechanic: End Game Bonuses
- Game Mechanic: Hand Management
- Game Mechanic: Network and Route Building
- Game Mechanic: Open Drafting
- Game Mechanic: Push Your Luck
- Game Mechanic: Set Collection
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 5
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