Ticket to Ride: Asia (Map Collection 1)

Ticket to Ride: Asia, Ticket to Ride Map Collection 1, provides two new ways to play Ticket to Ride.

Embark on an incredible adventure in Alan R. Moon's Team Asia map as you and a partner compete against other teams on a 25,000 kilometer ride from Kabul to Beijing, through the steppes of Mongolia and the Gobi desert up to the Yellow River!

Or, if you prefer the quiet pleasures of traveling alone along the Silk Road, or winding your way through the hustle and bustle of Indochina, venture into the forbidden eastern lands of Fran?ois Valentyne's Legendary Asia. Just be ready for a hair-rising ride through the mountain passes of the Himalayas!

About the Ticket to Ride Map Collection Series
Days of Wonder's Ticket to Ride Map Collection is a series of expansions for Alan R. Moon's Ticket to Ride, with each expansion including a double-sided game board and destination tickets and rules for those locations.

Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 1 - Team Asia & Legendary Asia presents players with two set-ups on Earth's largest continent:

? Team Asia from Alan R. Moon ? Four or six players compete as two-player teams, with teammates sitting next to one another at the table. Each player has her own secret hand of cards and tickets, in addition to some cards and tickets being placed in a shared cardholder that either player on the team can access.

When a player draws cards, she must place one card in the cardholder to share and the other in her hand (unless she takes a face-up locomotive, in which case it must be shared). When a player draws tickets, one ticket kept must be placed in the cardholder and any additional tickets kept added to her hand. A player can spend her turn to add two tickets from her hand to the cardholder. A team's points are tracked collectively, and the team with the highest score wins.

? Legendary Asia from Fran?ois Valentyne ? The main change in this setup is that some of the routes through Asia are labeled mountain routes, with one or more spaces on the route bearing an X. Whenever a player claims one of these routes, she must place a train from her reserve in the Mountain Crossing area of the game board, earning two points for each such train but otherwise losing them for the rest of the game. The player who connects to the most cities in a single network earns a ten-point 'Asian Explorer' bonus.

Note: This is NOT A STAND-ALONE GAME. A copy of Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe is required to use the maps in this expansion.

Contents:
??? *? A double-sided full-size game board featuring a map of Legendary Asia on one side and Team Asia on the other.
??? * Destination Tickets and Rules for each map.
??? * 6 card holders
??? * 45 plastic trains (9 each in 5 colors)
??? * A multi-lingual rules booklet.

The expansion requires an original copy of Ticket to Ride? or Ticket to Ride Europe to play.