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Ticket to Ride (board game) edits

 * italicize any use of the board game name following Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works
 * change the heading names to include the full title of each game
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 * make awards into table (was done by other user)
 * make sure the dates are date month year throughout article
 * change "color" to "colour" on table
 * marked headers properly as some were not marked as "subheading" and were simply bolded
 * add more to the reception header by rearranging some of the article (finished product put at end of page)
 * change Days of Wonder to DOW where needed (I was going to undo this as Wikipedia would rather have less abbreviations unless it a popular abbreviation. However, with the restructure, there was no point in undoing this edit.)
 * do overall copyediting on whole article


 * rearranged this sentence from the lead paragraph. - "According to the publisher, over 750,000 copies of the game were sold as of August 2008."


 * added a citation needed in this sentence from the lead paragraph - "Influenced in part by the game's popularity, these dimensions have become a very popular standard for medium-size games, and are commonly referred to as "standard TtR size". "

Ticket to Ride: Europe
In 2005, Ticket to Ride: Europe was released. This version takes place on a map of Europe when it was at the turn of the 20th century. Two new types of routes were introduced: ferry routes that require locomotive cards to be played when claiming them and tunnel routes, which add the risk of additional train cards being necessary to complete the route. The game includes "stations" which allow the player to use a route owned by another player and thus complete their destination ticket. In 2009, Days of Wonder released Europe 1912, a card expansion for the European game. It contains additional destination tickets, and an additional play mechanic— Warehouses. In 2015, DOW released a mini extension called Orient Express, which contains eight destination tickets featuring a route of the Orient Express.

Ticket to Ride: Cities Collection
Maps in the Cities Collection features the same gameplay from the Ticket to Ride game series – collect cards, claim routes, draw tickets – on a scaled-down map that allows for a shorter game time.


 * Ticket to Ride: New York (2018): Instead of trains, the tokens are taxis.The wild card is a taxi.
 * Ticket to Ride: London (2019): Instead of trains, the tokens are buses.
 * Ticket to Ride: Amsterdam (2020): Instead of trains, the tokens are horse-drawn carts.
 * Ticket to Ride: San Francisco (2022): Instead of trains, the pieces are cable cars. It also features new tourist tokens in the city's famous landmarks.The wild card is a ferry.
 * Ticket to Ride: Berlin (2023): Instead of trains, they use trams. The wild card is bicycles.

Ticket to Ride: Map Collections
Starting in 2011, DOW began releasing expansions consisting of new maps. Each game introduces new rules specific to that version, and requires pieces from either Ticket to Ride: USA, Europe, Germany, or Nordic Countries to play. The following map collections have been released to date:


 * Volume 1: Ticket to Ride: Asia - Team Asia and Legendary Asia (2011): Team Asia allows six player games, in teams of two, while Legendary Asia introduces Mountain Routes.
 * Volume 2: Ticket to Ride: India + Switzerland (2011): India has a bonus for connecting your destinations in a mandala (circle); it is for two to four players. Switzerland introduced the city-to-country and country-to-country cards; it is for two to three players only.
 * Volume 3: Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa (2012): The Heart of Africa introduces Terrain cards, which give a bonus when claiming a route if you also have the terrain cards to match it.
 * Volume 4: Ticket to Ride: Nederland (2013): This is the first ticket-to-ride game with a currency system, used to pay bridge tolls for your routes.
 * Volume 5: Ticket to Ride: United Kingdom + Pennsylvania (2015): United Kingdom introduces a technology system, requiring upgrades to complete certain routes. Pennsylvania has a stock market system.
 * Volume 6: Ticket to Ride: France + Old West (2017): The France board is mostly blank, requiring you to lay tracks to decide the colour of the route before you can claim that route. Old West allows for six individual players. It introduces the city system and breaks from Ticket to Ride tradition by only allowing you to build routes that connect to your initial city.
 * Volume 6 1/2: Ticket to Ride: Poland (2019, 2022): This collection was published by Rebel under the Polish name Wsiąść do Pociągu - Polska. It was planned as a Polish exclusive, but by early December was available from online merchants in the rest of Europe, but for a limited sale only; the trade was shut down in January. However, DOW officially announced that the volume will be launched worldwide in September 2022. It is the smallest expansion map board in the series, having only four sections as opposed to the standard six. Gameplay has an emphasis on connections to neighboring countries.
 * Volume 7: Ticket to Ride: Japan + Italy (2019): This version was released in the United States on 31 January 2020 and in Japan mid-February 2020 via Hobby Japan at a retail price of 5,600 yen (excluding tax). The Japan side of this version features the Shinkansen and comes with physical bullet train pieces, which are collaboratively built and accessible to anyone. The reverse Italy side features a new ferry route mechanism, i.e. instead of drawing two train cards you can draw one ferry card, and adds a scoring rule for Italian provinces. There is no "Globetrotter" or "Longest Route" bonus in either the Italy or Japan game. The recommendation is that it is played with two to five players, who are aged eight or older, for a game lasting between 30–60 minutes.
 * Ticket to Ride: Stay at Home (2020): Released to mark the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a free print at home expansion that allows players to control family members as they navigate domestic life and complete daily tasks.

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
On 30 May 2023, Days of Wonder and Asmodee announced the release of this version on 3 November 2023. The game was premiered via a demonstration at Gen Con (3-6 August 2023), before being launched as scheduled in selected retailers and the Asmodee official store, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $119.99 (US). This version was designed by Alan R. Moon (Ticket to Ride), Matt Leacock (Pandemic), and Rob Daviau (Pandemic Legacy). The recommendation is that it is played with two to five players, who are aged 10 or older, for a game lasting between 20–90 minutes.

This version adapts the original Ticket to Ride concept with the legacy format, i.e. a campaign board game where new content is gradually unlocked through sealed boxes and envelopes. This format permanently changes the state of the game during play and alters the story as it unfolds.

This version is a standalone game containing 13 frontier boards, in the form of 13 jigsaw pieces (five of which make up the players' starting game board), which are unlocked gradually by completing the 12 games of this Ticket to Ride version During this version's 12 stages, players must complete tickets and build their fortune as they go from east to west in 19th-century America, successfully managing their own North American railway company through various campaign adventures. This version uses the original basic rules, with the following additional rules specific to this version:


 * Instead of gaining points, money is earned, and there are no default dollars in claiming routes like the original. Each player gets two points every time they build a route matching their player colour, and a bonus card if one of the cities connected has a large city icon (a small bonus to players who have completed tickets early).
 * There is both a story deck and a postcard deck; with the former containing cards that are read out before and after each game in the series, offering a faux-historical narrative framework and occasionally setting new rules to incorporate into the game; The latter is collected after the first game by completing certain tickets and offering rewards to the player that owns it if the specified objective has been achieved.
 * The train deck has several newspaper cards, shuffled into the train deck, resulting in a revealed event when drawn.

The game creators noted that they deliberately omitted the real-world exploitation of Native Americans and railroad workers, stating that "We found no way to include [these aspects] within the lighter theme of the game”, urging players to research the history in their own time.

Reception (originally only had one paragraph)
Ticket to Ride

Mike Fitzgerald calls Ticket to Ride "a game that I never tire of, one that lends itself well to the many expansions that Days of Wonder have released. The design principles it uses are all simple and have been done before, but they have never been put together in a game as compelling as Ticket to Ride." Board Game Quest mentioned that it is "one of the greatest gateway games ever made", and Board Games Land described it as "one of the best family board games ever made". Many of its expansions have also been positively received by critics.

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

Matt Thrower (IGN), commenting on its legacy structure, wrote "The fashion has moved on to more 'resettable' campaigns, but Ticket to Ride: Legacy sees you making permanent changes, resulting in a version of the game that’s unique to you. While it’s good to see this back, those changes feel less personal than they did in the earliest legacy games, and some of the mini-games are gone forever once they’re over. So it’s questionable how often your group might continue playing once the twelve games are up."

Adrien Martinot (DOW Game Line Manager), when describing the game, said “With Legends of the West, each game is different, with the story unfolding one layer at a time. New rules and game elements will punctuate this unique play experience, rife with unexpected events and cunning rivals.”

The game received largely positive reviews. Matt Thrower (IGN), whilst giving the game a 9/10, wrote "A triumphant new turn on an aging series, proving there’s good mileage in this old rolling stock yet. There’s more than enough novelty here to thrill fans of the franchise without overwhelming less dedicated players, although if you want in, you’ll need to commit to the campaign’s duration." Mollie Russell (Wargamer), whilst also giving the game a 9/10, wrote "Ticket to Ride Legacy is a game that feels great, even if the storytelling doesn’t back its theme up. The simple concept of the original game translates well to a campaign-based experience, and there are enough treats and surprises to engage a legacy fan of any experience level.

Ticket to Ride: Japan + Italy

Game Board Memo, in a review of the Italy side that gave it a 7/10, wrote that "In terms of the balance between the lack of additional rules and the amount of fun, the cost performance is on par with the German map."Ticket to Ride: Stay at Home (2020): Released to mark the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a free print at home expansion that allows players to control family members as they navigate domestic life and complete daily tasks.

Ticket to Ride: IPad

The iPad version of Ticket to Ride was named the 2011 Digital Game of the Year by the Danish Guldbrikken (The Golden Pawn) Awards, which referred to the game as "the exemplar of how a board game makes the leap to the digital world without compromise. The iPad version dazzles with its superb finish, easy availability and unparalleled expandability, as well as the ability to play on just the iPad or over the Internet."