Ticket to Ride First Journey

First Journey is Ticket to Ride for kids: the same train cards and the same idea of connecting cities across a map of America, with shorter routes, a bigger board, and tickets with pictures so a child who is still learning to read can play. A game is fifteen to thirty minutes, and the first to finish six tickets wins the Golden Ticket.

It is the Christmas gift for a family that wants a board game everyone can play, the birthday present for a six-year-old who has sat and watched the adults play the big one, and a game grandparents can run without reading a rulebook.

Ages 6 and up, two to four players. It teaches the real game, so the full Ticket to Ride is the gift two Christmases from now. Thirty-five dollars for the game that gets a kid to the table.