Naturelich Games

One card from Ticket To Ride: UK Cynical Edition by Jay, Alex & Ubbie for David Millard's UK expansion map. Ticket to Ride is designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder.

After re-visiting Ticket to Ride's unofficial UK map website by David Millard, I found a new expansion. It is an unofficial expansion to David's unofficial map. I am not sure whether this makes it any more official, but the extension "[...] celebrates the slightly more cynical British view with added government legislation and duff contractors." Created by Jay, Alex and Ubbie, this first unofficial expansion to an unoffical map is officially designed to be fun. The JAU-team felt a little lack of modern Britishness in the unofficial UK map. To quote them:

The Ticket To Ride games exemplify an idealised 19th century railway system, not the crud we have today. In the UK news a week can barely pass without some train problem or transport minister making an arse of himself. So we decided to put our not so serious heads on and invent an expansion to Dave’s unofficial map to bring back those elements we miss from our modern railway system.

Warning, if you have no sense of humour and have no idea of the calamities we have on our railway network you may just not get it!.

So what's really in this expansion? Let's look at a few examples (spoilers ahead):

• Incompetent Contractors: Tunnel built where not needed. Treat route as having 1 tunnel (can be used to counter "Competenc Contractors" instead)
• Pending General Election: Suddenly money can be found to counter any problem. Cancel any other card played on you.
• Government Meddling: Remove a route placed by an opponent and replace route with your own (you must have the cards to build the route)

And there's more, and it is simply hilarious. At first, I thought, this is some weird sense of British humour which I probably wouldn't get anyway (the Germans are not funny, remember?). But the Public Outrage card killed me. ATOMROFL.

Thanks to Jay, Alex & Ubbie for this great set of cards. Now, don't hesitate and print both the UK map, download the rules and the extra cards you'll need from this link and play this game over the holidays.