Ticket to Ride: USA 1910
Ticket to Ride: USA 1910 - A new expansion to Zug um Zug. Ticket to Ride is designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder
The next installation in the Ticket to Ride series is another expansion to the base game: Ticket to Ride: USA 1910. As it is being release at the Spiel 2006 fair in Essen the game production seems to progressing well. Some information on the rules has already been leaked at the excellent Garett's Games & Geekiness #30 podcast.
Ticket to Ride: USA 1910 which will come in a small metal box includes:
- big cards (as in TtR Europe and TtR Märklin)
- 35 new destination tickets
- a new Globe Trotter bonus card for completing the most tickets
- a new replacement deck for all the cards from the original game deck
With the 1910 expansion, players will be able to play three different variants of the original Ticket to Ride:
1910 Destination Tickets: Play with the 35 new destination tickets
Mega Game: Play with all the tickets (69 in total) from both the original game and 1910
Big Cities: This variant uses only 35 tickets connecting to the biggest US cities (Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle).
The USA 1910, the tickets will be specially marked which should help us in distinguishing them.
That's the facts as they seem to be available right now. Obvisouly, USA: 1910 is a must for me. Since Days of Wonder is selling this expansion into their huge SdJ 2004 market, this expansion will certainly become a financial success. Several people have already complained that we only get new destination tickets. How much fun can this be? Whether it really adds new spice to the USA map remains to be seen. But I hope Alan R. Moon has designed this to take the basic game into a new and fresh direction. If this is all about my 15 (?) Euros or memorizing 35 new cards, then 1910 will be a big disappointment. If all goes well, this expansion will add new strategic options and a couple of interesting new winning strategies. We will see in Essen...
Update: Days of Wonder has now published a dedicated website to the 1910 expansion with additional pictures of some of the cards.