Play ticket to ride online6/6/2023 ![]() I rarely have an issue on my phone but sometimes my fingers are too pudgy to click the correct cross-hair. I love playing this game on my phone but the experience is better on a larger screen for one reason only: drag and drop. If you open the app however, it will alert you that it’s your turn. This was only on Android and in looking at what other reviews are saying, it appears to be an issue that isn’t just specific to me. Like most of the apps I’ve been reviewing, I’ve had issues with notifications appearing alerting me that it’s my turn. While this is a perfectly valid strategy, it’s not one when you actively lose points. ![]() For example, I’ve had the AI take one or two large point value tickets (like LA to NY) but instead of completing the ticket, they just fulfill all the large routes on the board and then lose the ticket points at the end of the game. It feels like they use strategies that are beneficial but don’t fully commit to them. I think I’ve seen them utilize slightly different strategies but none of them feel like they’re optimal plays and I’ve never really had any issue besting an AI player. Regarding solo play, the app features four bots but as far as I can tell, they’re only different in name and profile photo only. Online play also lets players choose to play an asynchronous or real-time with both options featuring time-out options. The app supports solo play (against up to four bot players), local play (which allows up to five players with the app on the same WiFi to join a game together), pass-and-play (which allows up to five players with a mixture of real and bot players) and online play, which allows players to play against friends and strangers in ranked and unranked games. All in all, the interface is well spaced and easy to read and navigate. Under that deck is a players active tickets that are organized to be red (incomplete) and green (complete). The right hand side of the screen will feature the available cards from the market, as well as the top deck allowing for players to draw more tickets and the bottom deck allowing players to take cards from the deck for their turn. Player information, including score, amount of cards and trains remaining will be found on the left hand side of the screen with the players personal cards seen at the bottom of the screen. Players can choose train cards, choose new routes or claim routes on the board each turn. If you’re a veteran of Ticket to Ride, you won’t need to partake in the tutorial as the app is pretty intuitive and mirrors the physical game almost to a t.įor those new to Ticket to Ride, the basic idea is that you are collecting sets of colored train cards and using those sets to fill in routes that connect cities on the main board. ![]() ![]() I appreciated the ability to have options as I find myself clicking through when everything is predetermined. The tutorial is interesting (compared to other apps) as it doesn’t make you follow a predetermined path so it’s almost like playing a two-player game instead of just a tutorial. If new to Ticket to Ride, there is a tutorial that only takes a few minutes and gives a proper rundown on not only the rules of the game but how to interact with the digital interface. The full expansions are $2.99 each in the app store whereas 19 are $.99 each. Purchasing the app will only net players with the base (US Map) Ticket to Ride but you are able to purchase many expansions, such as 1910, 1912, Asia, Europe, France, Germany, India, Nordic Countries, Pennsylvania and United Kingdom. So how does it hold up as a digital iteration ( Android/ iOS)? We’ve shied away from the game in the past few years due to burnout but when I get the itch, I turn to the app for a few plays. Since that initial play, we’ve accumulated many expansions and I have no doubt our plays total over five hundred, if not a thousand (when you’re broke, playing the same game over and over is great). Ticket to Ride was our second game ever and was an absolute staple of our board gaming experience for several years.
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