Ticket to Ride Switzerland Expansion

by Days of Wonder

Product Features

• The expansion requires an original copy of Ticket to RideTM or Ticket to Ride Europe to play.
• This expansion takes you through the heart of Switzerland's mountainous geography
• It comes with a new board, 46 new destination cards and a set of rules (in several languages) to create a new game
• 2-3 players
• Ages 8 and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 2 x 12 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B000WTDUZ6
• Item model number: 200455
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 months and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,099 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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. It comes with a new board, 46 new destination cards and a set of rules (in several languages) to create a new game.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Christopher Coakley (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ticket to Ride Switzerland Expansion (Toy)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

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

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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 

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This review is from: Ticket to Ride Switzerland Expansion (Toy)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great game, but obsolete with new DW release, September 3, 2011

By 

Joe Black "Kurt" (USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ticket to Ride Switzerland Expansion (Toy)

Per days of wonder ([...]), this map will be released on the flip side of their new India release. More for less ;)