Description

Ticket to Ride: Ghost Train is a family-friendly adaptation of the classic Ticket to Ride series, designed for a younger audience.

In the game, players collect parade float cards, claim routes on the map, and aim to connect locations such as the Mad Scientist's Lab, the Gingerbread House, and the Lonely Barn as shown on their tickets. The game board displays a city map with specific locations connected by colored paths. Each player begins with four colored parade float cards in hand and two tickets, with each ticket depicting two locations that the player must connect with a continuous path of their ghost trains to complete the ticket.

On a turn, players can either draw two parade float cards from the deck or discard parade float cards to claim a route between two locations, placing their ghost trains on the route. To claim a route, players must discard cards that match the color and number of spaces on the route (e.g., two yellow cards for a yellow route that's two spaces long). If a player successfully connects the two locations on a ticket with a path of their ghost trains, they reveal the ticket, place it face-up in front of them, and draw a new ticket. If a player cannot connect the locations on either ticket because the paths are blocked, they can use their entire turn to discard those tickets and draw two new ones.

Players can also earn a "trick or treat" bonus if they manage to create a route stretching from the Dark Forest region to the Seashore region.

Ticket to Ride: Ghost Train offers an engaging and accessible gaming experience, introducing younger players to the popular Ticket to Ride series while maintaining the core gameplay elements that make the original game so enjoyable.