The main issue I have with the original US map is the route selection. You randomly get two long routes that work together, you probably won the game, unless someone block you, which mean you are dead last.

With Europe rated so low, I don't know if I can ever trust Tom again!!! Fine, Tom is still my go to guy and I'm glad he had UK/PA map pack so high. Thanks for doing this one Tom! It was really interesting to see your perspective on such a classic series.

Thank you so much for this!!!! My husband and I are new to the game and we play the Europe version. We changed it up a bit. For a two-player game, we each use two sets of trains, we start with 10 train cards, two long routes, and three short routes. It is so fun. We love it! Thank you so much for this very helpful video!

Thanks Tom!!! TTR Europe was one of the first games I got. I liked it but it didn't impress me that much. Years later I got all the map packs and this is one of my fav games of all time. It's so much fun and you can also get some new players to the table ... and they have a chance to win on their first game. It's a great franchise ... thanks Tom for pointing that out so many times.

I think Zee should do the same for Pandemic.

Something similar for Dominion and other popular games with lots of content would be great!

I’d love to watch such a video about all the Carcassonne stuff: base game, expansions and spin offs. Sam would have been ideal for such a list: I wonder if someone else in the Dice Tower would be able to do it now. They would have to have played it all several times to rank all the items.

I picked up rails and sails as a first ticket to Ride game about two years ago because I had played the app in the past and the game was on sale. We quickly realized a flaw. You can almost disregard your missions and just go for the long routes and you'll likely win. This is made easy with the double ship cards. A 7 space route might only use 4 cards. I imagine if everyone would compete for those spaces that may mitigate that issue, but usually players are focused on missions so it's kind of game breaking... Now I've picked up the new anniversary edition of Europe, and everyone seems to like it alot more. With 4-5 players it can still get highly competitive.

Started with ticket to ride London and love it. I've been looking to get another and had no idea there were so many choices, I'll definitely be having a look for some of these other cool maps. Thanks for the info 😊😊👍👍

Great video! Very nice to hear Tom's opinion on each game. My favourite is Rails and Sails, and we like to stretch it as much as possible!

0:55 I must admit that, I've exactly come here to hear your opinion on Polish map :D As I'm going to buy it for my parents, as they love to play in TtR:EU and even sometimes they play with theirs neighbors. Nonetheless, thank you for this great video!

My favorite Ticket to Ride is the 10th Anniversary edition. Who doesn't love placing a train car carrying a giraffe with his head sticking out? To me, the more detailed and nicer cars are well worth the extra money for the game.

Thank you for this vid! Personally by watching this video I once again saw that these games could be experienced completely different for everyone. Ive played quite a few versions and rails and sails is my absolute favorite, and Asia is probably in second place. So if you maybe dont like his number 1, you might love some other versions

I loved Rails and Sails. The one adjustment I woukd make is taking ticket cards. I would change the take 4 keep 1 to take 4 keep 2. It needs more of a penalty if you just keep taking tickets once your main routes are complete

I'm still a basic purist - USA (+1910) for me. I've played Europe, and maybe Asia once, but I don't really like making a simple game more complex with extra rules when it's not necessary. USA keeps things at its simplest. New York and London are thus also good :D

I was surprised Rails and Sails didn't rank higher, it is by far our favourite!

Germany is our favorite of all the expansions. Picking up the Meeples adds a whole New level ticket to ride. And gets you more scoring opportunities than other TTR games

Pennsylvania is my favourite. I like that it forces people not to save up a ton of cards and then dump them all down.

I’ve only recently gotten into board games (besides party type games) and I bought TTR original. My family (especially my brother) really loves it. Now I need to buy some more TTR stuff!

My 3 year old plays Ticket to Ride: First Journey with me. Until you (Tom) pointed it out, I never realized how complicated the main game is to play.

At our house this game is called "Ticket To Rage".

Thanks Tom! I wish DoW would reprint Marklin and make it available in the U.S. It's very expensive in the secondary market.

This was one of the most informative videos that I've seen put out by you guys. Thank you!

I play with my 7 year old we mostly play US map but I like the Europe map better because US map tends to have a way to win and hard to loose if you play one strat while Europe is more balanced. However, my kid makes us play with train stations in the US map...

TTR Europe deserves to be in top 5....Hit like👍 if u agree

I think my favourite is Rails and Sails. I like the extra length, and the split between boats and trains is really interesting. I just wish they were better quality components. I don't know if they were trying to save weight or money, but the trains in particular feel thin and cheap compared to all the other versions I have that came with trains.

I only have the original game, but looking at this I'm interested in checking out more. Especially because family members understand this game.

T2R First Journey is great, but has been replaced in our house with GHOST TRAIN. Works really well worth the grandparents in our family too because of the chunky pieces, supports some critical thinking and only lasts 30 min.

Thanks Tom. I agree with most of your rankings. TtR is still one of my favourite games. I love playing it with my kids.

When we gonna get Ticket to Ride World? Legacy game with a giant 12 panel world map board.

I love Europe with 1912... but pronouncing the city names is always challenging for me. I like stations because they allow you to accomplish your routes easier but also reward those who do so without using the stations. Love trying to get through a long tunnel with only the exact amount of cards required... a bit of push your luck. Need to play more maps though.

Ticket to ride Europe is my favorite. I like the tunnels and the fairies. I also like playing against Alexa.

The Pennsylvania version is phenomenal. My favorite by a considerable margin. Nordic Countries #2.

Take a drink every time he says ticket to ride

Rails and Sails if my favorite! c:

Thanks for the review and ranking of Ticket to Ride franchise. I am surprised; however, how low you rank Rails and Sails. It is one of my favorite with combination of ships and trains, and is meant to be longer play and a higher strategic level of play. Looking forward to keep adding to my collection and your reviews are always helpful.

thank you for posting a shorter list video! perfect length for me!

"Rails and sails" can't challenge in this category : it really put Ticket to ride on an other level ! It's the most expensive box, but it's a full box with two more items inside and 2 wonderful map. Once a few games, it doesn't feel too long but too short. Concerning Europe, if you don't like the stations token, you can just agree not to play with it, it's ok. But I don't feel their using make the game too easy because you do pay the price : you loose points, cards and most of the time, the possibility to win the Longest road bonus.

My favorite is UK and Pennsylvania.

The Polish expansion is actually quite decent. Everyone liked it in my group so far. My personal favourite is the UK though.

I actually tend to leave stations out in Europe unless I'm playing with new players to board games in general.

Tom - The Europe version has stations that can make it easier, yes perhaps...kind of but, that is offset by: (a) You are penalised points for every station you use making them a last resort option and (b) The tunnelling mechanic which makes it harder to complete some routes unless you take an alternative longer route. I enjoy Europe for this variety it brings over the original US map version. And there are plenty of opportunities to shut people down. Just ask my daughter.

Seems Tom got the ranking backwards. US original map is the worst one, because it is designed backwards: singles and many doubles are wild card colours, while long routes demand specific colours.

We play a game of TTR every day. France is our favorite board. I wish they sold extra train cards as they tend to not last very long. I did buy the 1910 expansion pack for the cards but that is quite expensive for what you get.

The only thing I can't agree with is the high placement of India/Switzerland. Both - especially Switzerland - have tickets that are super-duper valuable. The games become all about getting those tickets rather than strategic placement of trains.

I've been looking for content like this. Thank you.

Great review! We just played Japan and loved it.

I like Nordic Countries the most. It's a maximum of three players, and I usually just play with my Dad, so it works well. Also, that's one of the parts of the world I want to visit some day. And I think the map is nicely set out.

I think they mixed around the maps for the 2 Asia versions. The first one shown is the Asia map. The 2nd one is the team version.

It's funny, my favorite actually changes depending on how many players are in the game.

Damn, rails and sails is by far my favorite. It feels more grand and strategic

You can’t just put TTR Europe in 14th place just because you don’t like the train stations because it makes the game less competitive. The train stations make the game more competitive (in my opinion) because every station costs 4 points and can make the game…

Hi Tom, I agree more or less with all of that, there is a few versons I haven't played yet but like you I love the UK and pennsylvania maps and the Japan map. Even though I lean more to heavier games than this I still p[lay and enjoy Ticket to Ride.

UK, the Technology Cards are awesome!!!!

Europe was the first one I ever played and still love it to this day. Uk and Pennsylvania map pack might be may favorite though as it is great for both beginners and for players who want something more.

I think the one gripe with the US map vs Europe, and why I prefer Europe as a base game is the Europe map there's an in built balancing mechanism with the tickets, so no-one just wins from their initial ticket draw, or perhaps more importantly loses. The one issue with US map is if you are playing with experienced players and get a bad initial ticket draw of say no tickets over 8 points or whatever, you can basically never win, you're just too handicapped against someone inevitably will have better tickets than you (should add this is obviously assuming you're playing 4-5 players rather than 2 players). It doesn't happen often so it doesn't hurt the game too much, but it can be frustrating to sit down to play a US game, look at your tickets, and know you basically can't win before the game has begun. A few other maps have this too, but the US perhaps more than most has a number of long tickets that work extremely well together which feels less on other maps. That could just be a case though that I have played the US map more than any other map, so you have the ticket deck virtually memorised, meaning you know a good route to take from the off to benefit your draws later. It's only really Europe that I also know most the tickets, but it doesn't have the same issue with getting a bunch of long tickets that work together by definition of the rules.

My goodness me I think I could be happy owning all of this stuff except maybe the base games of Germany and Netherlands (the Marklin and Nordic Countries sets would suffice there I think), and the travel version London, as I own the similar New York already, and also those yellow submarines man - I'd just keep humming the first line of the song! (and of course I'd avoid and the 2 discontinued mini-expansions, incl Orient Express cards, that Tom says ignore). With children in mind, I can even see a use for the dice-variant and card/memory versions of the game, as well as the kids version itself. For parties, Alvin and Dexter could make the game a bit less competitive but still fun, and sometime you do need to do that. The other one I own is Europe, but I can see myself playing the original US base set too (with the 1910 expansion I suppose) just for the American map. I'd hate to think what they'd cost if you bought them all together! I think he mentioned 27 different products all told, including the 2 deluxe sets, 1910/12 expansions, discontinued stuff and Poland, and tbh I was a pretty cynical about the whole business model, which does seem like a runaway train to me.. but I also had no idea how different all the genuine variants are to each other, which covers most of the products it seems. It's interesting that the long-play variant, Rail and Sails, which could well combine the most game elements of all of them, isn't actually regarded as well the maps (with their own rules) for the base game(s).

I started with Europe. Still my favorite.

Marklin is also my favorite TTR game (that is, of the officially published ones) with Pennsylvania being a close second.

America and Pennsylvania are probably my favorites.

I have completely ignored the dice expansion and my wife complains when we go to a store and it's the only "expansion" they have. I didnt know there was a card game of it. Lol

Is there a non fan based map for Canada?

Thank you exactly the video I was looking for

Pennsylvania, UK, Europe, Wild West, UK, France, NY, Rails and Sails.

Marklin is also my favorite. Such a great game. Beautiful to look at and great, tense game play. Kudos to Alan Moon for creating such a great train game system.

My favorite (and only) TTR is Nordic Countries. Bought it mainly for the aesthetics. I might get Europe too because I don't like too much confrontation and we had several occasions on whoch we wanted to play TTR with friends and family but couldn't because of Nordic Countries lower player count.

My biggest issue with the original game was that people could win, by getting short tickets then trying to build as many of the 6 train connections as possible. They would never take extra tickets and obviously block others from doing their tickets. It is a winning strategy, but seems to be a weak point that one of the best strategies is to get a couple of 6 point tickets and connect them up, then try and build a long train and get as many of the 6 train segments as possible. I find a 4-5 player Europe game has a good level of conflict in it. I do have Marklin and forgot how much I like it also! We must be due a map of Australia sometime soon?

I own Europe, Nordic Countries and a few map packs, and used to own USA, but sold it off. I haven`t played them in a while, though...

My favourite TTR maps are Marklin, UK and Italy

Ticket to Ride Amsterdam appeared just recently. Where would you rank this map? :D

The dice works really well with people who have dementia. Allows the caregiver to assist in a less obvious way. Also, My First Ticket to Ride is a great game for elderly board gamers. My FIL didnt notice that we changed to this version

Markland & the OG TTR were my fav too!

Ticket to ride Germany is my family’s favorite not mine but I really think it’s one of the best but not the best, Netherlands was my favorite

Try Ticket to Ride Rails & Sails, but with dice!

The thing I live about Europe is that I can ask before play on how mean/backstabby they want play to be and remove stations from play accordingly. My only gripe with it is all the city names are in the native languages and while plenty are obvious some are, 'wait where??'

Awesome Idea this video - and I like the trick with not telling us the games in the info section

The original is my favourite followed by the UK and Pennsylvania maps🤟

The video I never knew I needed.

I actually really liked the dice expansion. It does speed up the game a lot. Plus no shuffling!

Marklin! I love this one too.

I play the Nederlands version without any of the new rules. No bonus points. No coins. Nothing. Toss it all. Just play the game straight up. It's the most intense (and maybe the most fun) Ticket to Ride that I play.

This is the game that got me into computer gaming. 😁😁😁😁😁

I bought scandinavian countries this christmas for my mom. First time ive ever played ticket to ride, and we all absolutely loved it! Wonder which one I will get for myself.

My favorite Ttr thing is 10th aniversary edition!

Dude's way to talk reminds me of Quentin Tarantino. Very charismatic.

I like Ticket to Ride and will play it if someone else wants. If however some other gamer is in contest with Ticket to Ridge I'll pick the other.

I prefer the EU map because of Boats.. the US map is so dry without it, no pun intended. Also, as a scandiavian, I'd love to get the nordic map pack.. but my city is so terribly displaced, that I am borderline insulted :D

Thank you 🙏

Rails and sails is a lot longer but it is amazing, so much more tense then base game but definitely longer

I suppose it would be placed between London and New York because it is basically the same thing, but what about TTR Amsterdam?

Wow, this read released in 2020.

Which one do you think is best for only 2 players?

Love Marklin, UK, and Asia too. Searching for where to buy the Japan.

Can you please do the same for power grid maps?

I have Europe. I enjoy it quite a bit. Yeah, I agree it's easier to get around someone blocking you, but it's still infuriating.

Cool concept

My favourite is USA with mofified rules: * use all 48 trains * Points per conndction = length (e.g 6 trains = 6 points instead of 15). * no extra points for longest path. This favours completing more missions rather than just going for long connections. With normal rules winning strategy is often two simple missions, focus on long connections and finish fast. Which is efficient but kind of boring.

C'mon, man! Europe is one of the best and Rails and Sails is by far the best one, especially if you're family of five and you need the bigger ones.

I was a hardcore wargamer when I first tried Settlers, and that tile laying game and the original Ticket to Ride. I sold them all. My daughter is 13 now. She visits Europe every summer. I'm thinking about the Swiss map. We have an old friend who lives in wintator outside of Zurich. Oh, and she's half Indian. Thanks for an informative review.

I have cooled on TTR Europe I know all the routes and its just getting kinda boring My favorites are Rails And Sails France UK Africa