Ticket to Ride USA 1910 Board Game EXPANSION - Train Route-Building Strategy Game, Fun Family Game for Kids & Adults, Ages 8+, 2-5 Players, 30-60 Minute Playtime, Made by Days of Wonder

Fun add-on to the base ticket to ride gameYou will need to own ticket to ride to play this expansion pack

Got the base game to play a board game with parents and they liked it, but there were 2 noticeable issues with the game. 1. The cards in the base game are tiny making them hard to shuffle and deal. 2. One player would always go for more routes and it never worked out in their favor due to the limited number of routes available. This expansion fixed both issues. The cards are now a size closer to a deck of playing cards and there were many additional routes with different terminals and the addition of a card that gives additional points for having the most routes completed. Overall great pickup if you have the base game and don't want to spend money on one of the other full board variants.

When I first received my Expansion Set I was a little disappointed. Some descriptions online aren't very clear when they say that the set includes cards from the Mystery Expansion set (long out of print and no longer available). Well I'll clear it up for the newer game players like myself. The original mystery set was a giveaway at a show and came in a magazine back in 2004. It included 4 new tickets and 5 character cards. The cards were mixed into the ticket deck after the initial tickets were given out at the beginning of the game. The character cards were something special though! There were 4 different characters which granted the person that found them a prize/power of sorts. The Tycoon, gave the owner 10 extra points at the end of the game if they had a coast to coast connection. The Inspector, let the owner double the value of any card worth 10 or less points. The Station Agent, gave 10 points to the owner if they visited the most cities at the end. And the Engineer, in which there were two cards, let the owner dig through the ticket deck and pick out a ticket of his choice. Sounds fun right!? Well the 1910 pack includes the 4 tickets but NOT the character cards. But I have a solution for this at the bottom! First, the review!I love this expansion for a couple reasons.1. I really enjoy the new rule set, especially 1910 Mega, which throws a whole bunch of extra tickets in the mix. You get 5 tickets at the start (keep 3+) and it also throws in a the globetrotter card which gives the person with the most tickets at the end 10 more points.I like the other two variants as well, Classic, which swaps the longest track with the most tickets card, and then the big cites variant that tosses both those cards out and only includes tickets connecting to Big cites. Like I said I enjoy all of them, but the Mega game usually gets crazy with people taking tickets left and right.2. I love the new card sizes! The cards in the original game were annoyingly small but in the expansion the cards are the size of normal playing cards. And not just the new cards, the expansion includes new versions of all of the cards from the original game as well! So this expansion takes the place of the cards from the original. Much easier to shuffle and hold on to. I recommend this set for that reason alone.So back to the Mystery Characters. I told you I had a solution and here it is!I made my own custom Mystery Character cards! And you can too! The original character cards were the size of the original, small game cards and purple, so a player knew when one was up. Well I prefer a little more mystery in my mystery cards. ;) So I created a set which is the same size as the 1910 set and has the same back as well. I printed them on card stock and rounded the edges so it is really difficult to see if you're about to get a mystery character.I've also set this up so that you can do it too! Unfortunately, Amazon won't let me link directly to my files but there are two ways you can find them. First, I made a post on the BoardGameGeek Ticket to Ride forum on 3/12/2012 which links to them (my screenname is FujiToast). Otherwise right now a google search of "Custom Mystery Characters" will also take you directly to the forum post.Have Fun!

I'll be direct: The Ticket to Ride series is my favorite board game series.We LOVE connecting our cities on the Heart of Africa map, or trying to link the 4 countries in the Switzerland map.Ticket to Ride Europe is our favorite full box game, but we felt like the base game, Ticket to Ride (North America) is, well, dull.Don't get me wrong, It's still Ticket to Ride! But the choice of destination was limited, and the small playing cards? AWFUL! Just AWFUL.You get these large tickets for all of the maps, and the large train cards with Ticket to Ride Europe, but the small cards meant our Ticket to Ride base game was gathering dust.Until we bought 1910: Suddenly, you have all these destinations which mix things up, and you know what? You get the big cards now!!!Not just for the tickets, but also for the trains... Our small cards never left their recessed holding spots in our box and instead, we now place 2 bags of trains per slot (and the spare trains) and use the remaining 2 for the tickets and the train cards. It fits! Even with sleeves!But now, you get 3 modes of play:The Base game, with just the original ticket (with a few welcomed corrections in point values for some error tickets),Big Cities, for which ALL tickets are just to 8 cities (including the frustrating Miami)The BIG Game, which includes ALL of the tickets, and believe me, if you shuffle them well, ,you'll never get 2 games alike...Now, I won't lie to you, Ticket to Ride (North America) is STILL our least favorite map, but now, at least, we'll play it once in a while and it got back at the best for introducing new players to the series since it's the ONLY game without ANY special rules (no ferries, no tunnels, no lost trains, no special cards, no train stations or passengers).But without 1910, you are stuck using the tiny useless cards...Well, they are 100% useless: with 1910 and 3 full games (North America, Europe and Marklin) and the pumkins train, you get 4 set of Train cards (3 big and 1 tiny ) and 16 train sets.This allows you to use your map collections for FOUR simultaneous Ticket to Ride games of 16 players (We were planning 3 for Switzerland, 5 for Europe, 4 for Asia and 4 for Africa), with a Marklin or India finale for the 4 winners... but the game didn't work out (long story, coordinating 16 players is HARD).You could even play with 17 players if you use a 6 player team Asia game...In short, 1910 is awesome...

This was an awesome expansion to the original Ticket to Ride board game. Added new routes and bigger playing card sized train and route cards. Our children, ages 16-14-11, love it when we play Ticket to Ride for Friday night game nights, and this update made the game a little more competitive because there are new shorter routes.

The media could not be loaded. I absolutely love the original ticket to ride game, so I got this and it’s so much better. It’s easy to add the expansion in because it just upgrades the quality your train tickets, adds more routes, which is so much more fun to play, especially with more people. It’s small so it doesn’t take out space, and the train cards look so much better anyways! Dump the tiny original train cards!