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Ticket to Ride?
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Popularity Score: 19
This app was mentioned in 35 comments, with an average of 4.54 upvotes
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Awesome! I adore board games, more than apps/video games. I just don't have anyone to play board games with so I found it on Google Play (6.99)! It's also available for Iphone at 8.99 if anyone else is interested.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daysofwonder.tt.android&hl=en\_US&gl=US
Ticket to Ride is the only game in this list that claims to be compatible with Android TV. However, can it be played with a remote control or with a gamepad? I'd guess it would require tapping the screen, I wonder if they implemented gamepad controls.
Ticket to Ride!
Want to play the Europe map? Buy the Europe map. Want to play the 1910 expansion? Buy the 1910 expansion.
Want to just play Classic, solo, pass & play, or online? Sure, play it forever for free.
No loot drops or weekly quests. Just a great game you can knock out on your morning commute.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daysofwonder.tt.android&hl=en_US
Possibly Ticket to Ride or 80 Days? Those are the two games that come to mind when I think of "trains", lol.
If funds are limited and you're looking at TTR, then getting the app for ~$6.99 might be a more economic idea!
There are also a lot of other great games you can purchase like Galaxy Trucker, Splendor, and Carcassone.
First, I second the recommendation of a powerbank or four for five hours of game play.
LinkMe: Star Realms is a fun card game, but I don't know how much you can play without an account.
LinkMe: Ticket to Ride is a great board game with several levels of AI difficulty. You'll need Internet access to download new maps or for Internet play.
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- Ticket to Ride - Complete Bundle
- Android Edition: Ticket to Ride
- Sentinels of the Multiverse + Soundtrack | 92%
- Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game | 75%
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- Pathfinder Adventures | 68%
- Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics | 75%
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- Talisman: Digital Edition | 78%
- Talisman - The Highland Expansion DLC
- Talisman - The Dungeon Expansion DLC | 85%
- Android Edition: Talisman
- Includes the DLC "The Reaper" and "The Frostmarch"
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Or you could NOT play Monopoly, a game that was pretty much designed to be poorly balanced from the start, and instead play something that is still competitive but at the same time more fun and balanced.
Some examples of better card and boardgames that are beginner friendly and designed to be fun for all players from start to finish:
- Ticket to Ride
- Small World
- DC Deck-building Game
- Munchkin
- Pandemic
- Takenoko
- Bang!
- and so many more!
I understand that people are likely to stick to what is familiar, but Monopoly is precisely the opposite of a good game for relationships, time, and overall balance. All of the games I listed are fairly new-player friendly, even if you're not into boardgames. I implore you, please consider them the next time you want to rage quit a game of Risk or Monopoly because the world of boardgames is so much bigger and better than those two friendship ruiners.
As a great starter just to get acquainted with one game, Ticket to Ride has Steam, iPad, iPhone, and Android version that is cheaper than the paper and teaches you the rules and basic gameplay, as do a number of other boardgames (e.g. Small World, Lords of Waterdeep, Elder Sign, etc.). Trust me, I was reluctant at first, not being a huge board-gamer, but when I started branching out it felt like there was room to breathe again and enjoy the experience of playing a game with friends. It's gotten to the point where if a friend has people over for dinner or something, I will often put a couple of backup games in my car just in case that comes up. Hell, I've even had people request me to bring games like "Alright, Tom, you bring the dessert. Alan, please bring some drinks. Julie, could you bring a salad? Brimmk, could you bring Cards Against Humanity, Ticket to Ride, and some other board game? Surprise us."
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Pity, I've already owned both Ticket To Ride and Galaxy Trucker.
Ticket to Ride is a fun game about building railroads. It's a port of a popular board game series. One of the nice features is if you register for a free "Days of Wonder" account and connect it to your instance of Ticket to Ride expansion purchased through the site are avaialbe on any platforms where you install the game. You can have Internet play, pass-and-play and local play. All games can be supplemented with AI players.
Carcassonne is a a port of the popular board game that offers multiple play modes and expansions.
Small World 2 is a fantasy themed conquest game, also ported form a board game.
The venerable Minecraft lets you explore each other's worlds on the local network and works across iOS and android.
Evil Apples is a digital game inspired by the filthy "Cards Against Humanity." It allows free local play but you really need three or more players. Online play can be a pay-as-you-go or a one-time unlock fee.
No personal experience, but here's some research: The app itself looks okay. As a game, it's just a board game, but one that is fairly highly rated and has some awards. (The 7.5/10 rating is actually fairly high on that site.)
FWIW, I always keep my device and installed apps updated, I never install apps from outside of the Play Store, I always run an ad blocker in Chrome.
Here is a reconstruction of what happened yesterday (from memory and looking things up that I could look up):
I bought and installed Ticket to Ride and then Root (in that order), and at some point I updated some already installed apps (Dropbox, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Bandlab, Amazon Prime Video, and Google Photos all of which I would regard as safe apps). Not sure I updated the apps before installing the games, between, or after, but it was before updating ChromeOS.
Then after playing the two games and running my battery down, I put my chromebook on to charge, and installed the ChromeOS update while it was charging.
After it had updated and rebooted I went onto my Android tablet to install Root while my Chromebook was charging. I went into the app billing section of the Play store app to find Root and install it, and that was when I noticed that I had apparently "bought" Clip Studio Paint.
I went back onto my Chromebook, and checked and saw that Clip Studio Paint was indeed in my app draw (where it definitely hadn't been before) , went into the Play Store and immediately uninstalled it. I saw some warning in red text about it not having been installed from the app store, but can't remember the wording. I think it was under the uninstall button on the Apps page in the Play store.
After I had installed the games I had rearranged my app draw to put the two games into a folder, and I don't remember seeing Clip Studio Paint in my app draw at that point, as when I found it there after updating it had shifted my games folder to one side (which I'm sure I would have noticed).
My current thinking is that Lenovo pushed this app with the update, which seems to fit my observations above. And other people in this thread have confirmed that Lenovo have installed this app on new Chromebooks in the past, though no one mentions getting it in an update.
So, the million dollar question is: are ChromeOS updates on Lenovo Chromebooks delivered by Lenovo (where they can install crapware if they want to) or do they come direct from Google?
Ticket to Ride: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daysofwonder.tt.android
Exploding Kittens: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingkittens.projectbombsquad
Blend: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigcrunch.blend
Tales Up: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talesupreader
Plato: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plato.android
There are a lot of digital versions of board games that have online multiplayer. I'm not sure if that's the versus action you are looking for, as most of them are turn based, but they aren't p2w.
Here's a couple examples. Most of these are a premium purchase for the regular game and have IAP for extra content such as expansions that add new features.
Thank you for the suggestions.
Both games are made by the same developer, Days of Wonder. Both games are $6.99 on both Android and iOS. Ticket to Ride works on both phones and tablets, but Small World requires a tablet.
Links to their pages on the App Store & Google Play Store: