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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Chris Babcock
The "plot twist" for this version of Ticket To Ride is the introduction of bridge tokens required for every route. Due to the low laying lands of Netherlands. Making sure you have enough money for tokens as you play the game is sort of interesting, but dealing with all the little tokens in your playing area is sort of annoying. Although the board is beautiful (as most Ticket To Ride boards are) the city names are VERY hard to read since their written in a scripty font. That on top of the fact that you've probably never heard of these places when playing the game, a ton of time is spent staring at the little maps on your tickets trying to figure out where you need to go.
bwonson
Our first game was a 2 player with neutral player. Quite good. Neutral player took up some great routes and affected both of us. Bonus did not make a difference as my wife got the bonus but I still won. Second game with 4 players. Much more cut-throat. The bonus here did make quite a difference overall. I tend to think it is a bit overbalanced in points. Next play will be 5 players. one major negative factor with this board...the FONT used for towns is absolutely terrible. Very difficult to read, even looking at it directly, let alone from sides or upside down.
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.