2004Alan R. Moon
- Videos
- 112
- Creators
- 95
2 - 5 players30 - 60 minLight weight

2016Alan R. Moon
Mostly how-to-play and unboxings. Ticket to Ride: First Journey (U.S.) is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, and 2 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
Ticket to Ride: First Journey takes the gameplay of the Ticket to Ride series and scales it down for a younger audience. In general, players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets. In more detail, the game board shows a map of the United States with certain cities being connected by colored paths. Each player starts with four colored train cards in hand and two tickets; each ticket shows two cities, and you're trying to connect those two cities with a contiguous path of your trains in order to complete the ticket. On a turn, you either draw two train cards from the deck or discard train cards to claim a route between two cities; for this latter option, you must discard cards matching the color and number of spaces on that route (e.g., two yellow cards for a yellow route that's two spaces long). If you connect the two cities shown on a ticket with a path of your trains, reveal the ticket, place it face up in front of you, then draw a new ticket. (If you can't connect cities on either ticket because the paths are blocked, you can take your entire turn to discard those tickets and draw two new ones.) If you connect one of the West Coast cities to one of the East Coast cities with a path of your trains, you immediately claim a Coast-to-Coast ticket. The first player to complete six tickets wins! Alternatively, if someone has placed all twenty of their trains on the game board, then whoever has completed the most tickets wins! Part of Ticket to Ride series.
Ticket to Ride: First Journey (U.S.) has 6 videos from 6 creators: 1 review, 3 how-to-play guides and 2 unboxings. They date from 2020 to March 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "How to Play Ticket To Ride First Journey in 2 Minutes" by Tabletop Duo, which runs 3 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Ticket to Ride: First Journey Overview with my Son! [Sponsored by Boardtopia] | DaniCha" by DaniCha.
If you like it, try Ticket to Ride, Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West, Ticket to Ride: Europe and Diamant, also by Alan R. Moon.
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2004Alan R. Moon
2 - 5 players30 - 60 minLight weight
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2 - 5 players30 - 60 minLight weight
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From BoardGameGeek:
Ticket to Ride: First Journey takes the gameplay of the Ticket to Ride series and scales it down for a younger audience. In general, players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets. In more detail, the game board shows a map of the United States with certain cities being connected by colored paths. Each player starts with four colored train cards in hand and two tickets; each ticket shows two cities, and you're trying to connect those two cities with a contiguous path of your trains in order to complete the ticket. On a turn, you either draw two train cards from the deck or discard train cards to claim a route between two cities; for this latter option, you must discard cards matching the color and number of spaces on that route (e.g., two yellow cards for a yellow route that's two spaces long). If you connect the two cities shown on a ticket with a path of your trains, reveal the ticket, place it face up in front of you, then draw a new ticket. (If you can't connect cities on either ticket because the paths are blocked, you can take your entire turn to discard those tickets and draw two new ones.) If you connect one of the West Coast cities to one of the East Coast cities with a path of your trains, you immediately claim a Coast-to-Coast ticket. The first player to complete six tickets wins! Alternatively, if someone has placed all twenty of their trains on the game board, then whoever has completed the most tickets wins! Part of Ticket to Ride series.
Designer
Alan R. Moon
Artists
Cyrille Daujean, Jean-Baptiste Reynaud
Publisher
Days of Wonder
Categories
Mechanics