Description
Ticket to Ride: Paris takes you to glamorous Paris in the 1920s. You ride a sightseeing bus down the Champs-Élysées, past the Eiffel Tower and up to a terrace in Montmartre. It is a small, fast version of Ticket to Ride that you play in a quarter of an hour.
How to play Ticket to Ride: Paris
On your turn you take one action: draw two transport cards, claim a route or take new tickets. To claim a route between two locations, you pay cards in its colour and place your buses on it. Bus cards are multicoloured and can stand in for any colour.
What makes Paris special is the French flag: when you pay for a blue, white or red route, you may keep one card in front of you. A blue, a white and a red card together earn you 4 points. When someone has two or fewer buses left, a final round follows. Completed tickets score points, incomplete ones lose points.
Why you will like it
- A real Ticket to Ride in just 10 to 15 minutes.
- The French flag adds an extra decision to every payment.
- If you claim a key route first, you block a shortcut for the others.
- A small box that is easy to take with you.
Who is Ticket to Ride: Paris for
The game is for two to four players aged 8 and up and takes 10 to 15 minutes. The rules are simple, and players like it best with three. It suits families and works well as a first encounter with the Ticket to Ride series.
What you might not like
Which cards you draw is partly down to luck, and the game is shorter and simpler than the big editions. It may not be the best fit for those looking for a long strategy game.
What is in the box
- game board with a map of the Paris transport network
- 60 plastic buses (15 in each colour) plus a few spares
- 4 scoring markers
- 46 transport cards
- 20 ticket cards
- rules leaflet
For a bigger game, our shop also has Ticket to Ride: Europe.
