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Ticket to Ride: New York features the familiar gameplay from the Ticket to Ride game series — collect cards, claim routes, draw tickets — but on a scaled-down map of Manhattan that allows you to complete a game in no more than 15 minutes.
Each player starts with a supply of 15 taxis, two transportation cards in hand, and one or two destination tickets that show locations in Manhattan (and Brooklyn). On a turn, you either draw two transportation cards from the deck or the display of five face-up cards (or you take one face-up taxi, which counts as all six colors in the game); or you claim a route on the board by discarding cards that match the color of the route being claimed (with any set of cards allowing you to claim a gray route); or you draw two destination tickets and keep at least one of them.
Players take turns until someone has no more than two taxis in their supply, then each player takes one final turn, including the player who triggered the end of the game. Players then sum their points, scoring points for the routes that they've claimed during the game, the destination tickets that they've completed (by connecting the two locations on a ticket by a continuous line of their taxis), and the tourist attractions that they've reached with their taxis. You lose points for any uncompleted destination tickets, then whoever has the high score wins!
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- gaming is for everybody
- Black history is American history
- If it happened on American soil it's American history
- History is not a priority in this country; comfort is the preeminent american value
- we're here we're here we're here
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- New York transport
- Route building
- Ticket to Ride
- Ticket to Ride: London
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- short play time ideal for two players
- compact, portable box fits casually into a game night
- easy to teach and quick to learn
- less depth than the full-sized Ticket to Ride experience
- two-player variant reduces routing options compared to multiplayer
- urban transit and taxi routes
- New York City, modern day
- light, accessible gateway game with quick play
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- destination tickets — draw and complete routes that connect specified destinations for bonus points
- route claiming — spend appropriate cards to place trains on routes and score points
- set collection — players collect color-coded train cards to enable route-building moves
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- "Ticket to Ride New York, the little small box game"
- "it's just two players the double the double routes are just down to one now"
- "we get two cards we get two of the route cards"
- "work before play"
- "always to walk in somebody else's shoes"
- "meet folks where they are"
- "kudos to Thinker Themer for stepping up and addressing that and just being straight and transparent about who did the game and what the game was"