Ticket to Ride is a great game for both new comers to modern board games and for veteran players. I want to stress that the game takes on entirely different mechanics for people that play it often. When you first start playing the game, you stay pretty focused on simply making your routes and generally trying to stay out of other peoples way. It's not hugely interactive and can sometimes feel like multiple people are playing independent games on the same board, only interacting if their paths happen to cross. This completely changes when people get enough experience to start knowing the different routes by memory and start to be able to keep track of their opponents cards and draws. You can start to get a lot more intentional blocking and racing to claim certain key segments, which makes the game a lot more of an interactive and feel more "high stakes". It also doesn't ever really feel "old" or "played out". Great classic game.