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Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries
Published by Days of Wonder
Designed by Alan R. Moon
Illustrated by Julien Delval
Full-color boxed set with 20"-by-31"-inch mounted board, 46 Destination cards, 110 Train cards, 1 Globetrotter Bonus card, 135 train cars, 3 wooden scoring markers, & 4-Page rule booklet; $50
STOP.
Stop whatever you are doing. Especially if you are a fan of the Ticket to Ride family of games. Stop and make your way to your nearest games emporium. Once there, purchase a copy of Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries, because by all accounts, this newest member of the multi-award-winning card-drawing, route-claiming train-themed series is a limited edition with just the one print run. Otherwise, kindly read on.
Originally available only in Scandinavia, Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries -- like its immediate predecessor, Ticket to Ride: Switzerland -- is designed for two to three players. Yet where Ticket to Ride: Switzerland was merely an expansion -- consisting of a new board and new Destination Tickets, all packaged into a flat, album sized box -- Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries is a full game. So inside the box can be found not only a new board, new Destination Tickets, and new rules, but also the game's own deck of Train cards, three sets of train pieces, three wooden scoring markers, and the new Globetrotter card.
The aim and play of Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries is relatively unchanged from other Ticket to Ride titles. The players take it in turns to draw colored . . .
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Article publication date: September 26, 2008
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