I’ve been playing a lot of the board game (and soon apparently to be a reality gameshow) Ticket to Ride recently, specifically we’ve been trying to explore more of the variants – everyone loves Europe, I’ve got a personal love of the stocks and shares aspect of the Pennsylvania board, and I tried playing the UK board last night but it was, frankly, a bit out there with its rules variants. Anyway, what’s your favourite expansion?
I wanted to illustrate the post with a video. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be copies of Gyles Brandreth’s Railway Carriage Game on Youtube. Gladiators: Train 2 Win a bit too clever. The best in terms of most obscure then is probably Commuter Quiz, the cryptic crossword competition from the mid-eighties.
Well since the Japan board uses the Tokyo subway as part of it, this clip fits…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BcESRwOFPg
(And I play the original board with the Mega rules most of the time on the app myself…)
Oh, yes, definitely fond of USA simply because it’s the easiest to teach new folks (not that any are particularly *hard*, but they do generally expect a grounding in the base rules), but no way I’d play it without the 1910 expansion