Italia - Ticket to Ride
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/