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Ticket to Ride: Italy is a fan-produced, unofficial expansion map to Ticket to Ride designed by Marco Chiesi. The Ticket to Ride board game is designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder.

Marco Chiesi has created a new unofficial map to the Ticket to Ride game. He lets us travel Italy, the beautiful country of pizza and pasta, of love and romance and of the best soccer team in the world (of 2006). If you are planning to go on holiday to Italy next year, this map might help you learn a little bit more about the geography in an enjoyable way.
In fact, since the map resembles the Italian railway (and ferry) system pretty closely, the game might even aid in finding the best routes if you want to travel by train.

To play, you either need to have the original Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe. The Italy map can be played with either rule set and components. However, there are some modifications. For both variants players receive only 42 instead of the usual 45 trains. The Europe variant starts with an initial destination ticket draw of three long and one short ticket. At least two tickets have to be kept.

The design of both the board and the tickets is wonderful. The game comes with a rule sheet for easy printing and is available for download at the designers web page: http://www.chiesi.net/ttr/

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Ticket to Ride - China - An inofficial map for Ticket to Ride by Andreas Bummel. Ticket to Ride is designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder

The unofficial family of Ticket to Ride expansions continues to grow. This time, it is time to build your networks in China. The map as well as the destination tickets are designed by Andreas Bummel, who is also responsible for a great map of North Africa. In this installation we get to visit Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and other fast growing cities. The game follows the original Ticket to Ride rules. While the destination ticket layout does not follow the original Ticket to Ride design the map is amazingly beautiful: it features a huge dragon on one side and inherits the usual TtR design. I am looking forward to playing this in conjunction with a quick game of Mah-Jongg maybe...

http://www.bummel.org/zugumzug/

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A tile from Carcassonne: The Horse. This expansion is designed by Jeremy Chambers. Carcassonne is designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published by Hans im Glück.

Carcassonne: The Horse is a fan-produced extension to Carcassonne. The game is designed by Jeremy Chambers who has created several great expansions like Carcassonne: The Invasion, Storehouses and Paths as well as the artwork on Vanguard variant.

Carcassonne: The Horse introduces 7 horse tiles, 2 wooden horses, and a six-sided die. The horse tiles are existing Carcassonne tiles with a smal horse icon on them. The 2 wooden horses are used in a game with 4 or more players. A 2-3 player game only uses one horse.

Placing and moving horses
Whenever a horse tile is played, the horse goes onto that tile. If playing with two horses, the horse that is not in play goes to the tile. If both are already in play, the tile placer decides which horse to move to the tile just placed.
The movement of the horse is determined by the six-sided die. Each time a road is completed the player that completed the road roles the die and then moves the horse(s) the number of tiles as determined by the die roll. The die rolls can be split between the horses if playing with 4+ players. The horse cannot go over the same tile twice in one movement sequence (similar to the dragon in Carcassonne: The Princess & The Dragon). The horse can be on the same tile as the dragon.

Scoring points
Anytime a feature is completed that has a horse on any tile of that feature, the scoring player gets 3 bonus points (if two horses are on the feature the scoring player gets 5 bonus points).

The horse tiles are available for download at BoardGameGeek: The Horse Tiles.

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More photos from this year's Spiel in Essen...

The fair always holds some fun moments. Some of them I dare not posting to the internet. However, I just cannot resist here... ;)

While some Essen participants enjoy playing games and take *a lot* of notes...

...others enjoy the silence and the quietness of a Gogol game. Oh, yeah, and maybe they harm the marketing message. Maybe Gogol is not as exciting and fast-paced as the commercials wants us to think...

Nothing to add to this message - Discover what is really important - More time for kids

3D-Chess did not spike much interest

...and the same might be true for Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod

Gemblo - Having heard all the praise from Korea we wanted to try this game

A session of Hermagor at the Mind The Move booth

Ravensburger celebrates the 20th anniversary of Das Verrückte Labyrinth...

... with a golden game board

A game of Blue Moon City

The nice scoring track for Blue Moon City

Dschingis Khan poster at the Winning Moves booth

Ave Caesar at the Pro Ludo booth

Ave Caesar session

Die Säulen von Venedig session at the Goldsieber booth

Alhambra - The Dice Game

Queen Games poster to announce Revolte in Rom II - Coming in 2007 - Let the games begin

Essen also holds oportunities for new game designers to present their prototypes to established publishers...

...and for players to test these prototypes...

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