gtmtnbiker wrote:This is a game that I just picked up recently. Someone at work brought the game in for us to play at lunch. It was a lot of fun so I got my own copy. I plan to check out other games by Days of Wonder.
I usually play card games with the family: Pitch, Rummy, Black Queen, Hearts, Skip Bo, Phase 10, Quiddler, Set. Other favorites are: Banagrams, Rummikub, and Sequence.
First off, if you still play card games, give
Tichu a try. You can play it with a regular deck of cards if you have four Jokers and are willing to deface them. It's my favorite trick taking card game that's accessible (as opposed to Bridge, which has an alarmingly imposing learning curve).
Keep in mind that Days of Wonder is just the publisher.
SmallWord is another hit that they publish, but it's not much like Ticket to Ride, though it does have territory building. Alan R. Moon is the designer of Ticket, and another area control game that he made that I enjoy is
Elfenland. You might enjoy something like
Brass. Or for a more mainstream approach (something you're more likely to find locally), definitely try
Carcassonne if you haven't before. Hell, you'd probably enjoy
Settlers too, and you can find that just about anywhere with board games.
