insideKENT Magazine Issue 80 - November 2018 | Page 117

CHRISTMAS
Ticket to Ride
With dozens of international awards and over
six million games sold, the Ticket to Ride
series is one of the most popular modern
board game series to date! Ticket to Ride is a
cross-country train adventure in which
players collect and play matching train cards
to claim railway routes connecting cities
throughout North America. The longer the
routes, the more points they earn. Additional
points come to those who can fulfil their
Destination Tickets by connecting two distant
cities, and to the player who builds the longest
continuous railway.
£37.99, www.johnlewis.com
Dixit Abalone
Dixit is the lovingly illustrated game of
creative guesswork, where your
imagination unlocks the tale. In this
award-winning board game, players
will use the beautiful imagery on their
cards to bluff their opponents and
guess which image matches the story.
Guessing right is only half the battle –
to really succeed, you’ll have to get your
friends to decide that your card tells
the story! This beautiful and functional board has room
for two teams of large marbles. Players take
turns pushing the marbles around the board,
with the goal of pushing six of the opposing
player's marbles off the board. The central
idea is that a column of marbles has weight
given by the number of marbles in line.
Someone will need to push with a heavier
group of marbles in order to push the
column along that axis. However, with six
possible directions, it's difficult to defend
yourself perfectly.
£29.99, www.amazon.co.uk
£24.99, www.zavvi.com
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