Wow, indeed. From the very first move to the end, my heart was pounding, it hooked me with all the decisions to be made: do I get cards, do I get the wild card, do I lay track, do I lay track to thwart other players, do I get more tickets ... and yet, there was never a moment of "analysis paralysis", the game kept <ahem> chugging along, and there was never a time that I felt any of the players no longer had a chance to win. Great game.