| Ticket to Ride - Märklin Edition
is the third installment in Days of Wonder's
best-selling boardgame series that has won
over 15 international game awards, including
the prestigious Spiel des Jahres. The
boardmap for the Märklin Edition is based on
a map of Germany and introduces Passengers
and Merchandise to the Ticket to Ride
gameplay.
Passengers are used to pick up
merchandise worth different numbers of
points along the routes that they claim.
Varying stacks of merchandise tokens with
different point values are placed next to
the different cities on the map. Players can
place one of their 3 Passenger tokens on any
city along a route that they claim. On his
game turn, the player can choose to then
move one of his passengers from the city it
currently occupies along any or all of his
continuous routes, picking up Merchandise
Tokens from each city he moves through. Of
course he'll always take the highest
remaining tokens. The point total of the
tokens is then added to his score.
Other game play changes are the vertical
orientation of the German map, and instead
of a bonus for longest route, the 10 point
bonus card goes to the player who completes
the most Destination Tickets.
While boardgamers may not be familiar
with the Märklin name, train hobbyists
consider it the premier name in the model
train world. This German company has been
around for over 140 years and is the world's
leader in the miniature train hobby. Each
train card in this edition will feature a
different image (118 in all) of a Märklin
model train car or locomotive. |
