The previous card back, featuring an illustration of a train in front of a gear-cog clock, has been replaced by the game’s 15th Anniversary Edition logo. Less successful are the train card cards. The visual revisions are better in some places, worse in others - I particularly dislike the use of the game logo on the back of the new edition's cards in place of the older illustrations. It feels more of a celebration of the continent, too, with icons representing specific 19th-century European landmarks in place of the generic modes of transport (ship, plane, motor car) on the previous version. The map is more colourful than the original, introducing varied terrain to Europe in place of the older map’s muted sepia tone. While there’s no real need for the map to be bigger (it also means the game’s box is notably inflated versus the original, with a lot of unused room) - this mainly feels like equating value to size - it does at least make some welcome improvements in terms of presentation. The Anniversary Edition’s European map is an enormous board - it almost filled my dining table. One of the new unique train car sculpts in front of a carriage from the original edition. They’re not major departures from the original’s core gameplay, but they’re nice to have in a single box all the same. Three alternative ways to play are explained on the back of the rulebook: Mega Europe, Europe 1912 and Big Cities of Europe, which mostly alter the destinations players are trying to connect to their network. The set also includes all of the destination ticket cards officially released for Ticket to Ride: Europe to date, including those from the base box as well as the Europa 1912 and Orient Express expansions and Ticket to Ride with Max promo from 2017.
Here's the original Europe map on top of the revised Anniversary Edition board. The rules remain exactly the same, down to the letter - although the revised rulebook does make the welcome improvement of replacing the original’s use of he/him pronouns with the more inclusive their/theirs, and is written in a bigger, clearer font. The 15th Anniversary Edition focuses on revamping Ticket to Ride: Europe’s visuals and components, rather than its gameplay. The 15th Anniversary Edition is definitely bigger than normal Ticket to Ride: Europe - but is it better?
Moon’s North American original to turn-of-the-20th-century Europe (1901 specifically), the standalone game introduced the ability to send your trains through handy tunnels - at the risk of having to pay more for them, if you drew any matching cards from the top of the deck - and build stations to utilise the existing routes of your opponents, making it a slightly more forgiving game than the sometimes cut-throat clashes over the exclusive routes of Ticket to Ride.
Relocating the states-spanning competition of designer Alan R.
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