Ticket to Ride Switzerland Map Expansion

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Product Features

• 2-3 players; 30-45 minutes; ages 8 and up
• A full-size game board
• 46 Destination Tickets
• A multi-lingual rules booklet (English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish)
• Designed by Alan Moon; requires either TTR or TTR: Europe to play

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 2 x 12 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B000WTDUZ6
• Item model number: 200455
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,483 in Toys & Games (See Bestsellers in Toys & Games)

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• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Product Description

Product Description

From the shores of Lake Geneva to the slopes of Davos, this expansion takes you through the heart of Switzerland's mountainous geography. You'll climb aboard the Mont-Blanc Express connecting Martigny to France and ride the Bernina Express over soaring passes into Italy. Previously only available to Ticket to Ride Computer game players, the Ticket to Ride Swiss Map Expansion is now coming to your board game table! Designed specifically for 2 or 3 players, this expansion forces you to reconsider all your Ticket to Ride playing strategies. It features Locomotive cards that can only be used on tunnel routes; only 40 trains per player; and new Destination Tickets that take you not just to other cities, but to surrounding countries as well. The game's author, Alan R. Moon, has called the Swiss map his "favorite of all the Ticket to Ride maps". We think you'll also find this map a great new way to play your favorite train game!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ticket to Ride for Two Players, March 19, 2008

By	Christopher Coakley (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This is an expansion only because it doesn't include the pieces and cards (train cards, not route cards). You could use either the pieces from ticket to ride or ticket to ride: Europe.

Ticket to Ride: Switzerland is the best ticket to ride variant for 2 players. It allows 3, but you might as well play the other ticket to ride games if you have 3 players. Switzerland is a smaller map and while fun for 2, is a bit limiting for 3. My girlfriend is a ticket to ride addict (Europe is her favorite). We play this when there's just the two of us. Games take about 30 minutes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Expansion Pack to a Great Board Game, September 28, 2008

By	Patrick Talmadge (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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We own several of the Days of Wonder games because we enjoyed Ticket to Ride so much! Ticket to Ride Switerland keeps the tradition of super addictive games. My wife and I love the Ticket to Ride games. When we are going to play a board game 90% of the time it is from the Ticket to Ride series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab your tickets, we're heading to Switzerland, January 24, 2009

By	2WFALLS - See all my reviews

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This is an awesome game for those familiar with the Ticket to Ride originals (American, European). We switch between the 1910 expansion and this Switzerland variety depending on how many people want to play.

The Switzerland pack includes a beautiful board with exotic city names for those of us that never leave the USA. The destination cards vary in difficulty, but include enough options to make multiple routes interesting. In general, you find paths crossing the country to reach endpoints on the border countries of France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. With only two or three players, nobody gets frozen out of getting to a border country unless one of the players isn't nice.

This Switzerland board has tunnel routes which shift the purpose of the wild cards (at least, that's what we believe the rules dictate). You see, wild cards are used exclusively on the tunnel routes. This can be a bit of a challenge when you need a regular train route, your color train card isn't showing up, and the wild cards don't help you.

The Switzerland version was a nice option for two players (me and her) with enough chase for the big destination cards and critical routes. In the Ticket to Ride USA game, getting big-point destination cards greatly influences who wins. Everyone seems to have "good cards" in the Switzerland game... unless you're that player that really goes after all the cards before others get anywhere near finishing their initial destinations. Oh, when you "pass" on destination cards, the cards are not available to anyone for the rest of the game.

Again, this is an awesome game. If you like USA or European Ticket to Ride games, this is a nice alternative when fewer players want to be at the table or you just want to hear kids mispronounce those European city names.