Ticket to Ride

The gateway drug of modern board gaming. Players collect train cards and claim railway routes across a map, racing to connect cities on their secret destination tickets. The rules take five minutes to learn, games last about an hour, and the strategic depth sneaks up on you. Since 2004 it has sold over 10 million copies and spawned map expansions for every continent. Ticket to Ride has converted more Monopoly players to modern board games than any other title.