Ticket to Ride - Review

Ticket to Ride is a game for 2 to 5 players.  You are a railway tycoon from 1912, trying to build the most routes in the USA.  You make routes by drawing cards from the face up cards, or the face down cards.  The cards are coloured passenger cards and a few engine cards (wild cards).  You have to match the coloured train cards with the coloured trains on the map to build  a route.  You get points for building routes (connecting two cities), and finishing destination cards (connecting many routes between cities that are far from each other).  I would highly recommend Ticket to Ride as a gateway game for non-board gamers.  The cards and map are of high quality.  It is also very easy to learn, and quick to finish.  My 5 and 7 year old can both play unaided.  In this  game my youngest, whom is 5, finished (beating me soundly) in around 60 minutes.  Even though my oldest does not usually play, she still likes to watch and hand out the train cards to us.