A great basic staple for anyone's tabletop collection. Ticket to Ride is not only fun, but also (somewhat!) educational for those of you who, like me, are not so good with basic geography. I like that you can keep score during the game (exercising those math skillz) using the border of the game board and that the scoring markers and train pieces are nice 3D tokens (wooden and plastic respectively), as opposed to the cardboard, 2D crap you see everywhere these days.