Its Trains Man!

Ticket to Ride. What a game. Here's what I want to talk about. This game has sold somewhere around 15 million copies. It's on every Christmas shelf. It won Spiel des Jahres back in 2004. And generally speaking, it still doesn't get the credit it deserves. So in this video I'm making the case. Ticket to Ride is hiding in plain sight. The designer behind it doesn't get the credit he should. The publisher has a story most people don't know. And this might genuinely be the most reliable gateway game ever made — even if I still personally rank it behind Catan and Carcassonne. We talk about Alan R. Moon, the guy who designed it that you've probably never heard of. Days of Wonder, the small French publisher that sold to Asmodee in 2014. The blocking mechanic that genuinely changes how the whole game plays. The twenty-plus expansions and where they've taken the franchise. The Legacy edition that nobody talks about. And whether Catan, Carcassonne, or Ticket to Ride actually deserves to sit at the top of the gateway-game pile. I'm probably going to upset some people with where I land. Fair enough. Let me know in the comments where you'd rank it. It's trains, man. Build train tracks. It's cool.