This summer, we were lucky enough to take the trip of a lifetime to Seoul, South Korea. The differences to London (our home) are quite staggering, and whilst there, we got to enjoy one of their many board game cafes. Coincidentally, on the same day we got to play Labyrinth in Korean, we also got a message from our Gift exchange, explaining that a package would be arriving with us shortly! (Well, obviously not WITH us, because we were on the other side of the world now, but you get the idea!)

Upon returning home several days later, feeling the pains of sleep deprivation, we noticed said package sitting on our living room table… Open…

My daughter had broken the most cardinal of sins! You don’t open another person’s board game package!!!

So, pressing closed the lid of the box, and refusing to peek inside, I tried to emulated the painful ripping of amazon box tape, and flipped open the box (pic 1)

I shuffled the paper packaging, in a pretence of first time opening, (pic 2)

and underneath was this (pic 3)

I’ve played Ticket to Ride before, but it’s one I’ve never bought for myself, because others who used to be part of our group owned it! We’ve not played it in a long old time now though, and once more we can introduce the joy of ‘taking that single path two stage’ and screwing each other over.

What do you mean I’m an evil player… it’s just strategy!

Huge thanks to our Reddit Secret Santa! This should proudly join my wall of games!