Double Routes: Some cities are connected by two parallel routes. You cannot claim both routes in a double route; leave some room for the others! San Francisco (2022). Instead of trains, the pieces are cable cars. Also, it features new Tourist tokens in the city's famous landmarks.The wild card is a ferry. draw two railway car cards in various colours from the draw piles (with the restriction that drawing a wild Locomotive card face up forfeits drawing another card), or Volume 3: The Heart of Africa (2012). The Heart of Africa introduces Terrain cards, which give a bonus when claiming a route if you also have the terrain cards to match it. Get on the Train: Poland". BoardGameGeek. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020 . Retrieved 31 August 2020.

The main difference is in the bonus scoring. In New York, players earn 1 point for each Tourist location they connect to with one of their routes. Out of 15 locations on the New York board, 9 of them are indicated as Tourist locations. It’s easy to connect to these locations and naturally happens throughout the game. Stay at Home (2020). Released to mark the COVID-19 pandemic. [19] It's a free print at home expansion that allows players to control family members as they navigate domestic life and complete daily tasks. [19] The routes are of varying lengths (requiring varying numbers of matching coloured cards), and only a single player can claim each discrete route marked on the board. Some cities are connected by two parallel routes that can each be claimed by a different player (unless the game is played by three or fewer players, in which case only one of the routes can be claimed). The same player may not claim both parallel routes between two adjacent cities. The point value of claiming a route is roughly proportional to the square of its length.Board Game of the Year Award: Codenames Named Best; Where Is Isle Of Skye?". Parent Herald. 24 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 July 2016 . Retrieved 31 July 2016. Best Family Board Games - Top 10 Revealed". Board Games Land. 22 October 2018. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019 . Retrieved 2 November 2018. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Icelandic, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Danish, Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Greek Volume 6 1/2: Poland (2019; 2022). This collection was published by Rebel under the Polish name Wsiąść do Pociągu - Polska. It was planned as a Polish exclusive, but by early December was available from online merchants in the rest of Europe, but for a limited sale only; the trade was shut down in January. However, DOW officially announced that the volume will be launched worldwide in September 2022. [17] It is the smallest expansion map board in the series, having only 4 sections as opposed to the standard 6. Gameplay has an emphasis on connections to neighboring countries. [18]

We’ve been playing this since Christmas and it is certainly a hit round here. It’s a great fit for the family and very engaging for Charlie. Volume 7: Japan + Italy (2019). Japan features the Shinkansen, comes with physical bullet train pieces, and which are collaboratively built and accessible to anyone. Italy features a new ferry mechanic and republishes its Globetrotter by adding Provinces. Released on 9 November 2022. Northern Lights is a stand alone game. The setting is the Scandinavian region (the same of Nordic countries), focusing on the 4 main nations (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), the Baltic nations (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Poland and Russia. In this edition up to 5 players can play (Nordic countries only allows up to 3), and there are 11 bonuses that can be awarded by varying conditions. This edition is mostly available in Scandinavia.

Lastly, players gain points for connecting Districts. A District is made up of Locations of the same color and number. Those are also the points a player gets for linking each of those locations via their claimed routes.