Ticket to Ride is another great game that has been around for ages.
Ticket to Ride is a game where you build a railroad from one city to another. You start the game getting three "routes" where are worth different points depending on how far away they are.
You can pick all of them, or only one or two as your initial starter routes. Each player also starts with four train cars. These train cars have colors that allow you to claim short segments on the board of that color with the locomotive being wild.
Each turn you can either draw additional train cars or attempt to claim a portion of your route. I say attempt as some segments require you to randomly determine if the segment is one or two longer, you can wait till you have those potentially extra cards so you have no risk, otherwise you can take a chance you won't need them.
When you complete a segment, you get points based on how long the segment is. 1 train car is worth 1 points, 2 is worth 2 but 6 is worth 15 points. Longer segments will always make you significantly more than multiple shorter segments.
Once one player is almost out of pieces, the game goes into last round mode where everyone gets one more turn. Once the last turn has finished, everyone counts how many routes they finished and adds up those points. Any routes you don't finish you get docked that many points. The person with the longest connected train gets bonus points.
We have the Europe version, it was gifted to us a long time ago. They make many themed versions of the game from Ride and Sails, Nordic Countries, UK, Germany, USA, Old West, New York and others.
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