I prefer Ticket to Ride: Twilight Imperium, where you play as a race of mercantile lions, and the tracks are so long they disappear into the vastness of space.

u made this video 5 years ago, and now a dad waay across the globe in some tiny country in asia just discovered this game and got influenced enough by this video to buy it and play it with his kids. thanks youtube. :)

My favorite expansion is Ricket to Tide, where you place rickshaws along routes that vanish and reappear with the ebb and flow of the waters tide.

This is the game I play with people who don’t really play board games.

"Can I borrow a potato?" ... I burst out laughing in the middle of a crowded Café.

"Spend the entire first half of the game getting trains" is my strategy. I have held half the deck before. You feel powerful.

"Who keeps inventing new colors!?" Had me dying

This is genuinely in my top 10 videos on KZfaq. Always a guaranteed pick-me-up. Well done boys.

Paul at the end there, asking the real tough questions we've always wanted answers too. good job lads

I think this is the best Shut Up & Sit Down video yet. Comedy on point, nice camerawork, great analysis, just great work guys.

I've been vastly enjoying going through the SU&SD back catalogue. That said we need to make OI YOU FLUBBIN' CLAG be a thing now please

As simple as TTR is, I tried to introduce it to my parents this Christmas, thinking it would be a simple game to play for an hour. Three hours later I would have preferred having my teeth pulled out with no anaesthetic.

One thing I love doing is drawing and producing my own maps and expansions, each one with a special rule or variation ☺️

I don't think anything's ever been more truthful than the blind drawing part.

I've missed Matt. This episode was hilarious: the writing, the delivery, the analysis. Great work everyone.

“The Great Lakes are just ponds. They’re not that great.” Me, a guy from Michigan: Them’s fightin’ words!

no don't do that NO STOP JESUS CHRIST Absolute hilarity.

I'd never watched this video, as I've played TTR once and was bored to death. But... those kids riding past at the 11:00 mark yelling "muppet" make this a must watch video!!

It's a sin that there's not a Ticket to Ride: The Isle of Sodor.

My wife is not a gamer and will play only a very limited selection of games from my closet. She was with me in a game store (in and of itself a remarkable occurrence) and saw Rails and Sails and wanted it. For people with non-gamers in the house, who like Ticket to Ride, this is a great in-between game. A little more complex than the usual, but not overwhelming for the rules averse.

How in the world did you get so many charismatic hosts. You guys are terrific!

Totally get why the Great Lakes map wouldn't be significant to anyone in Europe. For context: the great lakes are great because flying from one end to the other of just Lake Superior takes longer than flying from Norwich to Penzance (or Paris to Zurich, or Berlin to Cologne). It's bigger than Switzerland. It's so big that it never freezes in the winter, but also never gets above 15C in the summer on the north side. It's the biggest of them, but to fly from Duluth on Lake Superior to Watertown on Lake Ontario is 1000km, Warsaw to Paris.

Great review but I was surprised they didn't mention the 1910 expansion which is the card-only expansion for the basic map that adds a large number of tickets. Personally that expansion is my favorite since it vastly increases the potential number of possible ticket variations you can be dealt and have to shoot for. Also it's the only expansion that mixes completely with the basic game and isn't a completely separate game that you can't play alongside the original. I always recommend 1910 to anyone who likes the original.

Ticket to Ride is like a pop song: a lot of people like it, but that doesn't necessarily make it a great piece of music. I liked it the first few times I played it, and I still enjoy it when I'm not in the mood for something too heavy or complex. I do agree with Paul - I never really *want* to play it over something else. That said, I appreciate Ticket for opening up the world of board gaming to a really large audience. It's great to spread the message that modern board games have thrown out the "roll to move" mechanic and are full of interesting choices. Catan was my gateway game, and I think Ticket is that way for a lot of people. Cheers to trains! Also, the Great Lakes are badass y'all r dumb

I truly hope the kids calling Quinns a muppet weren't acting and just happened to be riding past.

As someone who was raised Duluthian, I've never felt more offended by a SU&SD video. Don't knock the Great Lakes 'til you've tried them.

I recently found your channel and your reviews are fantastic. You guys are hilarious and have such great charisma. Big fan. Just wanted to say that.

The surface area of the United Kingdom: 94,058 mi² The surface area of the Great Lakes: 94,250 mi² Yeah. 'Ponds.'

is it just me, or does repeating "ticket-to-ride" sound like a train rolling down the tracks....?

5:26 Pedantry time! "cost you negative points" Does that mean I gain regular points, Matt?

"Don't cook mum" - Best Part

The kids riding by calling Quinn a muppet is English bliss.

It would be such a great video for you guys to both review Catan (and its many expansions) as well as discussing its history and impact on the board gaming community.

The “I am a big blue engine” made me laugh so hard I had to pause the video for about 5 minutes for me to calm down

I live by the Great Lakes and yes they are Great Lakes

Just one thing to add to this old review; but Ticket to Ride can be challenging for color blind players. My dad is red-green colorblind, and he had difficulty differentiating a few of the train cards from one another. So something to be aware of. Game itself was fun, but not as enjoyable when dad kept mixing up some of the trains.

18:43 You guys crack me up! Very clever. Keep up the great review style. I can't stop watching.

*cooks mum*

Great review guys. I only recently played Ticket to Ride (Europe) myself and initially thought the idea of building railway routes a bit crap, but I was pleasantly surprised as I really enjoyed the game and would happily play it again. I've been playing quite a lot of Eldritch Horror recently and I think sticking little trains on a board for victory points was a refreshing change from the heavier cthulhu themed stuff I'd been getting used to. Thumbs up from me.

The great lakes have a total surface of area of of about 240,000 sq km. Great Britain has a total area of about 210,000 sq km. To put in perspective to drive from Toledo, Ohio, on one end of Lake Erie - the smallest of the Great Lakes - to Buffalo, New York, on the other end of Lake Erie, is just shy of 500KM. The drive from London to Liverpool is just north of 350KM. Your whole country could fit inside these "ponds."

the part you are looking for starts at 20:30

He literally lied on a pavement after getting mauled by Rails and Sails, I'm dying 🤣💀

Just simply one of the funniest things on KZfaq, let alone games reviews. Love this review

I always kept my mum on the stove, what's wrong with that?

"... brine ..." You're killing me, guys. Thanks for another great review!

I demand a Eastlander review

I think I'll wait for _Ticket to Ride: Madness of Cthulhu_ or _Ticket to Ride: Zombie Conductors._

The Ticket to ride Lord of the rings, Mordor expansion is the best thing ever.

Not gonna lie, was a little bit disappointing that you didn't have a "Let's get extravagant" segment with a potato and tuna at the end. Great episode!

Ticket to Ride is a boardgame for people who don't really like boardgames. It's more something to do on a slow evening than a competitive game. A round or two are fun occasionally, but then it gets difficult. Here are two house rules to make the game a bit fairer and faster: 1. At the start of the game deal every player five short tickets instead of three. Everyone has to keep exactly three of them and discard the other two. Your long route is non-negotiable. This prevents the situation that your long and short tracks don't match at all and you have basically lost before the game even starts. 2. Give each player a number of random train cards before the game starts. 10, 20 or 30 works great. This just skips the tedious first turns where absolutly nothing happens.

Yey! at last ive been waiting in my cave for 200 years to finally see this. I can now die a in happiness. great vid :)

Choo choo baby. Choo choo.

Ticket to ride is a nice game to get someone into board games. A gateway game if you will. But once you’ve played it a few times, I second the opinion that “It’s fine and it’ll be fun, but I’d rather play almost any other game.”

I live in Michigan.... When you showed the Great Lakes Map I was so excited that I wanted to buy the game just because it is centered around Michigan.... then at the end of your video you rip on the Great Lakes.... so sad.

You guys crack me up, this is one of the funniest yet! Keep 'em coming.

I prefer an older game by o some 40-50 years ago eurorails, you where able to create your own city to city connections. Transporting goods based on cards picked up giving bonuses through distances and other factors. Also the juicy part being you block opponents because some smaller cities have fewer connections leading in and if said opponents wanted to pay you for the use of your tracks. Let me tell you there is nothing getting to a city just a turn before someone was about to connect and you see this grown try to give you puppy dog eyes to let them you use your tracks at a discount... priceless.

Is there a way to double like a video? Also, can I borrow a potato?

I don't think there's a single board game philosophy of Paul's that I agree with.

I also got the idea they tried to make it bigger with different types of track without them effectively really being very different, and the harbours aren't really doing it for me. I have the US 10th Anni, Europe+1912, Dexter, that weird terminal expansion we never use, Nordic, Germany, 6 expansion boxes. Yes, i like TTR, i also have them op PC, iPhone, iPad, also mostly play it on iPhone when waiting on something a lot. Just buy Europe + 1912, Expansion, maybe Dexter.

2:37 That off-center printing is driving me crazy.

Jacketed Potatoe sounds like a naugty term for us Americans.

Just a quick note on the Great Lakes: The Lakes are 244,700 km² and the UK are 243,610 km². So, the Great Lakes are 1,000 km² greater than you think.

I really like the Marklin Germany edition as base came. Instead of the boring stations of the Europe edition it gives you pasengers, which makes it even more interesting to build routes early and makes the trade off between short routes in the west vs long routes in the east also more interesting. To me it is just the best map and the special cards are also pretty :)

My heart belongs to Twilight Imperium and its ilk: table-eating titans with weighty tomes of rules and totemic hunks of plastic. But I'm pretty sure I've played more games of Ticket To Ride than I have TI, Eclipse, Gloomhaven, and Arkham Horror put together. TTR is, indeed, the game anyone will play.

I completely disagree with Paul's comments. The things that makes Ticket to Ride so great is that anyone can play it, but it has many layers of depths to be explored. Games with good players are often fantastic strategic affairs. If anything, the game is hugely underrated as 'just' a family game.

How is it possible to make me laugh that much almost every time ?? I don't laugh with almost nothing except Monty Python...Damn it guys :P

When I went to buy this game, I accidentally bought an expansion! I know, I should’ve read the label but it’s way more out of the way then in the catan expansions. I later bought the 15th anniversary edition and apart from the miniature cards and clear plastic trains, is pretty good. The game itself is very satisfying to play as well. I’m still waiting on the Canadian expansion though.

A Snatch Reference? Wow, I’m impressed

The wild trains bit made me snort.

They're not great?! Lake Superior alone is literally larger in surface area than Scotland! 😂

The best part of Rails and Sails is seeing people try to correctly pronounce city names on the Great Lakes map.

10:25 Am I the only one seeing this? Quinns lifts and balances all those games one handed, basically on the strength of one thumb, completely casually to slot Kingdom Builder back into the stack. What a beefy boy

The mum bit killed me X'D

"You've just bought... tuna."

Regarding Thomas The Tank Engine and to paraphrase a certain film: "I've had it with these mutherf***ing faces on these mutherf***ing trains"

I assumed based on the other reference to "Mums on the Stove" went back to the alternate "Ticket to Ride" explination. ;)

Wow, that Kurt Vonnegut t-shirt really made me think about how I became to be me.

Hey, great lakes dweller here. They are not boring! Those lake trade routes you’re competing for were some of the most important in American history. America’s heartland has a large network of navegable rivers for easy shipping, but overland shipping to transport imported products from the coasts to the Ohio river was expensive and inefficient. The solution was to build the Erie canal, a 363 mile canal connecting the Hudson river (which meets the Atlantic Ocean by New York City) to Lake Erie in 1825 under the direction of governor DeWitt Clinton. Its successful completion boosted the economy of New York City, which just 100 years prior had been a sparsely populated trading outpost, and drove the economy of upstate New York for over a century! Shipping through the canal across the lakes cut shipping costs by 95%, and became the preferred way to transport raw materials to the midwest, Detroit in particular, which was once one of America’s greatest industrial hubs and is thought of as the home of the assembly line and the automobile. From there, raw materials and processed goods could also be shipped across the other great lakes to reach tributaries into the Ohio or mighty Mississippi rivers, from where they could be shipped almost anywhere in the American midwest and south. While the rise of rail shipping and interstate trucking has reshaped how goods are transported in the US and use of the Erie canal for commerce has fallen off significantly, companies still ship along those routes to this day! So please, respect the great lakes. They’re more than just big puddles - the trade routes were incredibly important right up through the Gilded age, the American era where capitalist overlords became so rich they bailed out the government when they couldn’t repay their debts, and were intimately related to the story of American industry, whether you see that story as one of ingenuity and innovation, or as a struggle against exploitation (as I, and anybody reasonable, see it)

When I play this game I find myself yelling at new players... Just take cards if you're not sure what to do! Stop thinking so much!

Awesome episode, guys. I love it when it's a tufer. Toofa? Two-for. Tufour.

You know. I expected Matt to ask Quinns if he minded if he replaced the Potato with Tuna. You've disappointed me. Seriously though: Great Video. Also: whoooh, Matt is in it!

That last five minutes... funniest fucking thing I've heard in a long time.

lol!! Great intro on the Beatles!

tiket to ride swedish editon, all the trains are late by an hour att least

Ticket to ride is the perfect "oh, we have 10 minutes until something real happens? let's just play this and who cares if we finish" game.

10:58 I died

ooh great lakes! bone to pick: nobody ever saw an iron-ore ship sink in a brutal november storm on a pond. The great lakes are magnificent.

I love ticket to ride, but it isn't my favorite game. It's basically what paul said. Would I rather play...root, or scythe or brass (por even axis and allies)?...yes. I would. But that said teaching some of those can really suck, so when someone comes over and wants to try something new and reasonably light, it's a great thing to pull out that isn't bloody monopoly or pandemic again.

I think it is that the trains are built and a brand new soul is inserted (but I can't think of where that soul might come from). Is it better to have loved then lost than to have never loved at all? Because the trains have never loved... Unless being hooked up to a carriage is love, like Anna and Clarabelle have Thomas, which might imply that all the passengers on Topham Hat's railway are party to something lewd.

The first time I played this game was when it was used as a social medium to break the ice with the wife's parents. It was the first time experiencing both anxiety and boredom simultaneously.

What does it take for lakes to be great? Let's take a look at the five "great" lakes: * Lake superior is the largest lake in the WORLD by surface area. * Lake Huron is 3rd largest * Lake Michigan is 4th largest * Lake Erie is the 10th largest * Lake Ontario is the 12th largest Lake Superior is also the 3rd largest lake in the world by volume, and lake Erie, the smallest, is still 18th largest in the world by volume. In a world of 300 million lakes, they are very large lakes and, dare I say, great. I'm happy to call Lake Baikal the greatest lake though. What a champ.

Our lakes are so big that the smallest is larger and wider than the English Channel, and the naked eye can’t see the other side, eh.

Great review, but Cleveland likes our Great Lake. It's one of the few things we have, mates.

In Rails & Sails, do you end the game when someone reaches 6 train pieces or 6 boat pieces OR in when they reach 6 pieces in TOTAL?

Ticket to Ride: 1912 is pretty cool. I recommend it. It's only for Eurooe though.

Did Matt ever get his Potato?

21:11 "I have no mouth and I must toot"

Paul at the end sound like a real chaos dwarf

When your lake can capsize a 730 foot freighter, it's a Great Lake...

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this British humor. Nice review! 👍