In more detail, the game board shows a map of Europe with certain cities being connect by coloured paths. In general, players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets.
#TICKET TO RIDE FIRST JOURNEY SERIES#
It is a game that is well worth adding to your child's board game collection.Ticket to Ride: First Journey takes the gameplay of the Ticket to Ride series and scales it down for a younger audience.
It requires the same sort of strategy, just in a way that is a lot easier for children to understand.
#TICKET TO RIDE FIRST JOURNEY FULL#
It is a very satisfying game to play and is a refreshing change to the endless stream of cheaply made, mass produced kids games that saturate the market at the moment.įirst Journey is a brilliant scale down of the original Ticket to Ride game and doesn't lose the essence of the full game. It is a lovely engaging game to play and encourages forward planning, being aware of what others are doing and problem solving.
It is a great game with lovely components and its format means that it doesn't take too long to play. I love playing First Journey with my son. In this case the player with the most completed tickets wins. This player is declared the winner and takes the Golden Ticket! The game also ends when a player places their last train on the board. The game immediately ends when one player completes their sixth ticket. You must say 'Coast to Coast' and then take one of the 'Coast to Coast' tickets and place it face up in front of you. If you manage to get a continuous line of trains from one side of the board to the other then you will earn the 'Coast to Coast' bonus card. You then take another ticket from the top of the ticket deck. You tell the other players you have completed a ticket and place it face-up in front of you. When you have managed to connect both cities shown on your ticket with a line of your coloured trains then you have completed one ticket. You can only claim one route per turn.Įach ticket shows two cities that you are trying to connect with a continuous line of your coloured trains. Don't forget that locomotive cards are wild and can be used in place of any colour train ticket. However, some cities are connected by two parallel routes, you cannot claim them both. You can claim any route on the board that hasn't been claimed already even if it isn't connected to any of the other routes you have claimed. Place the train cards in a discard pile, face-up next to the train card deck. You then place one of your coloured trains on each space of the route you are claiming. To claim a route in First Journey you play the number of train cards from your hand that match the colour and length of the route you wish to claim. The locomotives can be used as wild cards, so they can be whichever colour you need to claim your route. The train cards are either red, blue, green, yellow, white, black or they are multi-coloured locomotives. On your turn you can either draw two train cards from the top of the deck or claim a route. Play then goes round in a clockwise direction. The youngest player starts the game and takes the first turn. There are four coast to coast tickets that should also be placed to one side and there is also a golden ticket for the eventual winner of the game! First Journey Gameplay The rest of these should be placed to the side of the game board as the ticket deck. There are 32 ticket cards and these should again be shuffled and two should be dealt to each player. The rest should be placed to the side of the game board as a deck. Shuffle the train cards and deal four random cards to each player. The game board should be placed in the middle of the table and then each player chooses a colour and takes 20 trains of the matching colour. Let's take a closer look at this great game. It takes around 30 minutes to play and is engaging enough for all the family to enjoy. 2-4 players race to be the first to complete six tickets, each one showing a different route that you need to use your trains to claim. It is bright, colourful and uses the same engaging game play techniques we have come to expect from the Ticket to Ride collection. Brought to you by Alan R Moon and published by Days of Wonder, this game is a simplified version of the original and is perfect for children. Ticket to Ride First Journey is the children's version of the popular gateway board game, Ticket to Ride.
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