Ticket to Ride: First Journey Europe Reviews

4.9 Rating 8 Reviews

Ticket To Ride: First Journey (Europe) is a fun-filled adventure for younger train fans! Once again designed by Alan R. Moon, First Journey tweaks the much-loved Ticket To Ride to accommodate children aged six and up. If you’ve played the regular game, you’ll know what to expect! Players compete to try and build rail route on a map of Europe, linking cities. You’ll need to collect sets of same-coloured train cards to claim routes between cities. If you have the same quantity of matching cards that match a route, you claim it and place down your trains! The big aim is to complete ‘tickets’, which require you to connect two cities across Europe. Ticket To Ride: First Journey (Europe) takes its younger audience into mind with some rule changes. This game isn’t about earning the most points (like the original). Instead, the winner is the first player to complete six tickets. Players start with twenty trains – fewer than in regular Ticket To Ride – so it’s a quicker game (for those with, ahem, shorter attention spans!). Another way someone can win is if they place down all twenty of their trains. If they do, then the player who’s completed the most tickets at that time wins!The routes on this map are between one to three trains in length, so set collection is a little kinder. Also, since there’s no points, players don’t get penalised for not completing tickets. In fact, if both of your tickets get blocked, First Journey allows players to spend their turn swapping the dud tickets for two new ones. The colours on the board pop and there’s cute artwork for each city, which will delight the little ones. Publisher Days of Wonder have done it again! First Journey (Europe) goes to show that there’s a Ticket To Ride game out there for everyone. Player Count: 2-4 PlayersTime: 15-30 minutesAge: 6+

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“I bought this version of Ticket to ride to introduce my 5 years old to boardgames and i am so happy he loved it. The game is very straightforward and accessible but it provides a lot of fun for the family. Together with simplified rules, the esthetics and the nice components make the game very applealing.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Christmas present so not played yet. But reviews were good.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“An excellent game to get the kids hooked on the Ticket to Ride series - and interested in other games. OUr 7 and 9-year old took to it like a fish to water. Just the right balance between easy enough to play and complex enough to maintain their interest (and, not unimportantly, that of the parents!).”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Bought this as a gift for friends and they were very happy with it.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Condensing the bigger games down into a child friendly map with big clear icons works wonders for this classic game. The trains are chunky, the map clear and the game teaches all the elements of the adult games well. With the new 15 minute TTR: New York providing another excellent next step there is no excuse not to teach your children the wonder of TTR!”

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Posted 5 years ago

“We love this game. We play it with our 4 year old. She loves collecting the cards and placing her trains on the board. She is learning lots and at the same time it is fun for us too. Think it's a great game for young families to play together”

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Posted 6 years ago

“We play ticket to ride as a family without my 5yo daughter so this game appeared to be a way of introducing her to the game. It was great fun and ideal for younger gamers. Routes are shorter so are claimed quicker and it has a simple scoring mechanism which helped her understand the game and keep interested. Highly recommended.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Fancied the bigger, original version of Ticket to Ride but went for the junior version so my six year old daughter would enjoy it more. Great fun and as I have digital versions of both games on my tablet, I could easily change the rules a bit. The only negative thing I would say about the game is that, when the board starts to fill up with trains, its hard for kids to work out where everything is going. A part from that, Ticket to Ride is a great little family game.”

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Posted 7 years ago