Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 4 – Nederland contains a new game board with new rules for use with Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe with players now creating train lines in the Netherlands.
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b0ardgamer
Initially I enjoyed this game, but after a few plays I have become very dissatisfied with the end bonus cards - a swing of a few coins can make a 50-point swing in scores, and that's just too much of a random factor. In our last game, two players built their initial tickets, then just built cheap (long) connections to run their supply of trains out. And won by a mile. That's not an interesting game for me.
Armadillo Al
This doesn't really do anything better than the original. You have money, which just...gives the people that picked certain routes bonus points at the end? Maybe there's some skill in dropping the double routes first, but I don't see it. Between that and the difficulty in reading the city names on the board, I have a hard time recommending this over any other version of TTR that I've played.
Andy Parsons
Another map and another new mechanism to freshen things up a little. In Nederland it's the payment of bridge tolls; the lower the land the higher the fee. The toll for the first track section linking two cities goes to the bank, the toll for the second goes to the player who built the first. That matters because there's a hefty bonus (50) for most money at the end. This all provides a greater incentive to build early and maybe prompts some cost-benefit analysis of expensive late builds (though concealed money makes that difficult). In a game in which a good deal depends on the luck of the ticket draw, it may seem odd to quibble over the bonus for most cash. However, on the evidence of a couple of games, it does feel a bit of a lottery. Artwork and production quality are to the familiar standards of this series. However, the font in which place names are written is a pain.