A ticket to ride like an Egyptian
Egypt . A fan-produced map for Ticket to Ride. (c) by Thomas Cerncic. Ticket to Ride is copyright by Days of Wonder and designed by Alan R. Moon
Thomas Cerncic has completed work on a new unofficial map to Ticket to Ride. His extension map is called Reise durch Ägypten (Journey through Egypt) to commemorate his holidays in Egypt. Now you can ride like an Egyptian. As you can see from the picture above, the design looks fabulous. The extension not only includes the map but also several additional Mystery Train-like cards.
Gameplay
The map uses the original Ticket to Ride rules (i.e. no tunnels, ferries as introduced by Ticket to Ride Europe). I have not yet tinkered nor played this extension but it contains plenty of both long and short routes. The extension includes foru Acrobat PDF files with eight destination tickets each. Additionally, Thomas has created a set of 8 additional tickets (short-routes as in Mystery Train).
Ticket from Alexandria to Cairo. (c) by Thomas Cerncic. Ticket to Ride is copyright by Days of Wonder and designed by Alan R. Moon
Additional character cards
Reise durch Ägypten also contains a number of character tickets as introduced by Mystery Train:
- Bahnhofsvorsteher (= Station Agent)
- Insdutriemagnat (= Tycoon; score 10 points for connecting Northern and Southern Egypt)
- Triebfahrzeugführer (=> After all waggons have been played get a 10 point bonus)
- Verschiebebahnhof (=> get three additional waggons)
- Schaffner (= Inspector)
- Schwarzfahrer (=> make use of a route completed by opponent
- Ingenieur (2x; = Engineer)
Additional Ticket: Schwarzfahrer. (c) by Thomas Cerncic. Ticket to Ride is copyright by Days of Wonder and designed by Alan R. Moon
Download
The extension is available on Thomas Cerncic's website here.