Kerpow! Anita takes a massive thumping at Ticket to Ride : Europe

We've had a spate of Ticket to Ride games over this holiday period; either older versions or the new map packs. Today we had a go at Ticket to Ride Europe, a version we'd not played for a while because of the tunnels rule. The tickets were dealt out and we set off - making tracks around Europe; both of us had links with Edinburgh on a ticket which meant that when Anita made her play, I was stumped and lost the ticket! Knowing I would get negative points for this, I made a play for the long route across Scandinavia and Russia to get 21 points which I knew would be eaten into by my Ticket which was minus 8.

Then it came to counting out the tickets - and I accelerated ahead well past 100, eventually to 123 whilst Anita was far back on 89.

Ready for the final count up!

I win! 128 to Anitas 89!

New game! Nordic Ticket to Ride. And a replay of Ticket to Ride Europe

Crikey it is turning into a game fest couple of months - games ordered, preordered, purchased from afar - apparently the new Space Hulk and Back to the Future card games are out soon too which I'll take a look at (Although Anita has put a bit of an embargo on game purchases for a while). Friday I picked up a copy of Nordic Ticket to Ride, a snow bound version of the popular train game, covering the Scandinavian arena and parts of Russia. It uses some of the rules introduced in Europe (Tunnels and Ferries), but leaves out Stations and some of the rules introduced in the Marklin Edition. Very nice version - up to 3 players only - using white, black and purple trains. The cards are lovely, the European size and the trains/carriages are covered in snow. There is even one huge 27-point link between Finland and Russia! This is one great game - lovely for two players over a glass of wine! Anita beat me by 3 points! 

Then we had a go at Ticket to Ride Europe - Anita had big reservations when we first got this - the rules for tunnels especially seemed overly complex, when added in with Stations and Ferries. Therefore we've not played this one for a while, but with the experience from the Nordic one, we played again and found it very enjoyable.