Ticket to Ride
By Liz Panarelli,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Good version of board game pushes online play, maps to buy.
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What’s It About?
Kids start with a certain number of wagons and two cities to connect using the wagons. Through their turns, kids collect trains of various colors, which they can lay on tracks of the matching colors. Through a variety of short and long routes, these tracks connect cities on a map. On each turn, kids choose whether to get a new ticket with two destinations to connect, get more trains, or lay down tracks. When a player runs out of trains, points are allocated based on the success and length of each player's railroad connections.
Is It Any Good?
Kids who enjoyed the board game TICKET TO RIDE will like playing it on the iPad, which speeds play and scoring. Newcomers may be less enthralled. The rules are complicated but the objective is relatively simple, so the challenge and interest comes mostly from trying to outsmart other players. This makes the frequent encouragement to play online and/or buy additional maps hard to resist.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Pass-and-Play against your child and share aloud your reasoning and decision-making process on each turn, to help kids consider their own play.
Track their scores in the Hall of Fame, and challenge them to set a goal score.
Learn more about the cities on the map with a neat app like U.S. Geography by Discovery Education.
App Details
- Device: iPad
- Subjects: Math: addition, subtraction, Hobbies: board games, Social Studies: geography, global awareness, history
- Skills: Self-Direction: achieving goals, Thinking & Reasoning: decision-making, part-whole relationships, strategy
- Release date: May 18, 2011
- Category: Board Games
- Publisher: Days Of Wonder, Inc.
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 4.2 or later
- Last updated: August 22, 2016
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