5/16/2023 0 Comments Ticket to ride meaning![]() ![]() There's an argument that one should play Ticket to Ride only "by the book" - making only plays that actively help to score Destination cards in one's hands. To me that seems like a perfectly sensible procedure, but a lot of people seemed horrified at such unsportsmanlike practice! I ask because there was a question on this very site about whether it was poor form, in Settlers of Catan, to pretend to want to trade for a good, to sneakily fish for information before playing a Monopoly card. I'm just wondering whether this kind of thing would be considered poor sportsmanship in other groups. I patiently endured the two minutes of dire recriminations and imprecations that followed my dastardly move, and ended up winning the game by in the region of 20 points - hardly a landslide. With both the southern entries to Stockholm blocked, my poor wife now had no choice, if she wanted to link Kobenhavn to the top right segment of the board, to undertake a cruelly circuitous route, involving three turns and ten tickets, instead of one single ticket and a single turn. At this point, with a spare red ticket in my hand, I opportunistically played Stockholm - Norrkoping! The next two routes were played by my wife: Kobenhavn - Karlskrona, and Karlskrona - Norrkoping. We'd both drawn a poor selection of Destination cards and kept only two each. My wife and I were playing Ticket To Ride: Nordic Countries earlier this evening - apologies if you don't own this particular edition, but hopefully the basic situation will be obvious to anyone who's played any TTR, even if you're unfamiliar with the map. Here's a scenario to illustrate my question. ![]()
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