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Ticket to ride germany5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() In Ticket to Ride Germany these piles are split and shuffled separately. In other Ticket to Ride games the destination cards are all shuffled together, long and short alike. In a 4 – 5 player game these can all be claimed but in games with less than 4 players only one of these routes is available, making blocking more likely despite less trains hitting the board. A lot of these grey routes are double routes, and one is even a single length triple route. In a 2 – 3 player game this turns into a route battleground. Being short in length, and grey, these routes are quick and easy to claim early on, creating a bit of congestion for later on in the game. This area extends across a lot short one and two length routes in the Dortmund to Stuttgart region. Opening up the opportunity for players to claim routes with less limitations. Grey routes can be claimed by a set of any individual colour. Route-wise there is a relatively large blob of grey on the Germany map, and yet it still is a bright colourful board. Shaking up the gameplay towards the end rather than majorly effecting things throughout the entire game. After players have completed a few destination cards and are starting to run low on trains there is a distinct change in purpose Players tend towards going for routes to guarantee owning the majority of a colour set. It can change the dynamic of the game though. After trying to ignore destination cards and solely go for collections of passenger meeples it just isn’t quite enough. It even puts to shame the 15-point Globetrotter bonus. Initially, I was worried this could completely distort the scoring of the game, with long destination tickets rarely even reaching the 20-point mark. This can see rather large point swings when the game has finished. This is done for all colours individually. If only one player gets the most of a colour the player that has the second most of that colour gets 10 bonus points. If two, or more, players draw both get the bonus and no-one else gets points for that colour passenger. For each colour of meeple whichever player has the most gets 20 points. Firstly, whomever has completed the most destination tickets gets a 15-point Globetrotter bonus. At the end of the game bonus points are awarded for two reasons. Players claiming a route into these cities still only get to claim one meeple but get a choice of colour.Ĭhoice is important as collecting sets of the colourful meeples can bag players a lot of bonus points. ![]() Some of the bigger cities of Germany, such as Berlin or Stuttgart, have multiple passengers. If a station has only one meeple you don’t get a choice, though this is still better than if it has none remaining. When claiming a route between any two stations players get to take a passenger meeple from each end of the route. Having not played the original Zug Um Zug or Marklin version I cannot comment on the intricate differences in the passenger mechanic, but it does at least sound like a simplified system. As with all Ticket to Ride games the aim is to complete destination cards which have two cities which you must somehow link: scoring points if completed or losing points if left incomplete. To claim a route a set of a coloured Train cards matching the colour of that route is required, the amount set by the length of the route. Train tickets come in the colours that routes on the board are made of. ![]() On a turn, players will either draw Train cards, claim a route or draw new destination tickers. Across this map are a number of colourful train routes linking stations. In the middle of the table is a map of, in this version, Germany. Ticket to Ride Germany is a brand-new base game built for 2 – 5 players: coming with a full map of Germany, 5 colourful sets of train carriages, hundreds of cards and what makes this version different, passenger meeples! A standard game will last around 45 – 60 minutes with the full player count but this can go lower as less players are around the table.įirst, a quick summary of the basic game to those whom don’t know of the franchise. Moon and Days of Wonder are back with their latest entry into the Ticket to Ride series, rebooting the older Zug Um Zug variant to bring us Ticket to Ride Germany. ![]()
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