I am not a huge board game player so I am not speaking from a place of master knowledge however, I am totally dumbfounded by the amount of reviews  of this game let alone the high stars of this game. Can you say, "boring?"  Seriously --- are people starving for stimulation in a board game since othello or risk that they would rate this 5 stars?  This game is so boring that it will put a 2 year old to sleep.  Yeah...yeah...yeah you have to look at your train cards and destination cards and figure out how do I get the most points from "A" city to "B" city but what a snore!  We did not even finish the game.  My kids love board games like monopoly, clue, life, and risk so I purchased this game for us to play over Christmas Break... We quit after playing 15 minutes---so stupid.