Ticket to Ride vs Terra Mystica

If you're gonna choose train cards, you can either pick two from the cards that are revealed or two random ones. It's not all luck of the draw because...

That is just for you here we have a power section of each player's board and there's three different bowls. If you think of it, this way and you're go...

We have to clean each one individually with Windex and wipe each of them individually, then let each one sit out individually to dry. This sort of takes care of the dirt and stickiness, but the lamination should be better, especially how everything else keeps clean. We haven't needed to clean them again since the one time. It would be nice if the cards were larger, too

**Calico – [4/10] ** - Simple rules-wise, even elegant. Draft 1 or 3 quilt tiles, and place it in your hex grid. You get points for groups of colors, groups of patterns, or meeting certain pair-requirements. For a quick drafty game, this one seemed to cause way too-much AP, and I didn’t find it particularly fun either

Theme Well, several off-shoots from Ticket to Ride have come. Not to mention an expansions for the original game that adds several smaller routes. So there is evidence that the theme can be slanted, but in Ticket To Ride Europe, game play is the same with some twists, like you can use someone else’s route for your destination’s sake without getting points for the route, and you route requiring tunneling through mountains are more pricey. These off-shoot stand alone games are a good way for Days of Wonder to charge full price for what could have been a less expensive expansion to the existing game

**Antiquity** - One guy adores it, the rest of us would rather play Warcraft 2 (which is sort of what it feels like, except in cardboard, and clunky). There are other Splotter games that I kept.

Fun game to play. Easy game to teach the kids to play with the adults. Gets kids knowing where major cities are and how to pronounce them.

This will be one worker and two gold to do it, and then you can actually upgrade a dwelling into a trading post. So you can see there's these little a...

I am of the opinion that some of these modern classics, (**Small World, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Dominion, Catan,** etc...**)** are still worth playing today

Shelf of Shame: Roads and Boats, Antiquity, Oceans, Millennium Blades, The Search for Planet X, Race for the Galaxy, Junta, Twilight Empirium 4, Terra Mystica, Blood Bowl: Team Manager, Kemet, Tigris & Euphrates, Power Grid, and Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion.

The setup and play are very hard to understand. Outside of a neat box and concept, this is probably one to stay away from..

Well, you know we're not doing so. Well and you're like yeah rather bits are their bowls cities. Cities right hang on hold the thing because I've abys...

i thought I was disproportionately bummed about it but then we babysat and our friends daughters also commented that their favorite part about the game was the cards and that the smaller size and simpler design was an outrage. So I felt validated. I would happily pay more for those magnificent cards or collectors editions with special art. I did order the extension set which had better cards but still feel that the game should have come with the original, magnificent cards

I won't go into super details about how to play the game since there are hundreds of videos and sights for that. I want to talk about what makes this a rich experience for some gaming groups. Components: These are really well done. The wooden pieces are vibrantly colored and vary enough where it's easy to see which vacation is which

It is not a quick game, so plan to spend at least an hour to play, depending on how many players you have (and how quickly they make decisions). If you play often, consider purchasing the expansion pack! Highly recommended.

**Paladins of the West Kingdom:** Seemed interesting, and think this will be a keeper after 1 and a half game played. Has quite some depth and variability, plus the option to play it solo comes in handy.

If I were to nitpick, I would definitely say the cards are oddly small and thus can be hard to shuffle and handle- especially at the start of each game, when you'll end up spending 15 minutes just trying to mix them up as much as possible. But it's a small price to pay for such a fun game. Overall, Ticket to Ride has quickly become a family favorite, and it is definitely one I'd highly recommend! A 5 out of 5!

4. **Sidereal Confluence** \- Again, it fills out a great niche and has a great player count but my concern is how much table space it occupies and how many people would be willing to play it when bunch of other games are available.