I recently wrote a review for the Forbidden Island board game.  In it, I said that I have been playing board games for a very long time and it is getting harder to find games that I can say are actually better than most of the games I have played before.  Forbidden Island was one of them that I would say that about and so is Ticket To Ride.  Like Forbidden Island, Ticket To Ride is very easy to learn and to teach how to play.  It will appeal to players of all ages.  You play as the owner of a railroad line and you are trying to fulfill contracts by placing trains on routes that connect cities all over a map of the United States.  The more contracts you can fulfill, the more victory points you can accumulate.  There are a lot of expansion sets released, with lots of new maps from all over the world and many more ways to play.  Ticket To Ride is a must have for any board game collection.