We bought this game to play with a 9 year old grandson who loves board games.  We are sick of Monopoly and Clue, etc.  I found this game mentioned in a recent issue of Shop Smart magazine and immediately looked it up on Amazon.  This game, the basic US version, was fun and interesting and taught our grandson names of the cities plus how to spell them.  The game is fun, fast, moves have to be strategic; there is no play money involved (no banking yeh!) and the competition between players is more civil as the board is large, the train routes are many and options for your turn are many.