not anóther T2R game

Probably like the Hasbro “express”, Catan, etc dice games for sale..
Days of Wonder has hopefully seen that most of those games are on sale for 50% off everywhere, more than likely due to lack of sales.

Tom, as I noted in BGN’s Spiel 08 preview under the entry for Tintenherz: Das Würfelspiel – which will appear at the same time as Tintenherz: Das Kartenspiel and Tintenherz: Das Spiel zum Film – 150,000 copies of Catan: Das Würfelspiel have sold, according to the Kosmos catalogue, so interest in brand extension games might be stronger than you think.

Eric

True.  perhaps I shouldn’t have lumped Catan in there - as its probably an exception onto its own - but those Hasbro games are being practically given away.

Catan might not be an exception, Tom, but the difference between Kosmos and Hasbro is that first-year sales of 150,000 would be a failure for the American company. Hasbro aims big and needs huge sales to support its level of marketing, which means that games either hit big and spawn immediate sequels (think of Hollywood with the announcement of Iron Man 2 the weekend after the movie’s big opening) or disappear to discount stores and are never spoken of again (as with The Love Guru).

Eric

The other thing to consider is that Risk Express is a lot of fun, Monopoly Express is decent, and the other Express games seem to have their fans.  So it’s been a successful series so far, even if the best of them (Risk Express) isn’t available in North America.  I have no idea what those dice represent, but I’m always interested in checking out new dice games (so many good ones have been released lately) and I can certainly imagine an interesting one being based in the Ticket to Ride universe.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/340700
http://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/dice-expansion/

Hmmm. Three custom dice for $20?? Sorry DoW, I don’t think so.

Let’s not mention that this will make the game even more random than it is; as it stands the base game is manageable.

It also seems like yet another Yahtzee variant, yet this time, not even it’s own separate game.

I followed the link and see that it’s 8 dice, a cup, and a pile of tokens...so perhaps it’s $20 worth of bits....but the rest of my comments still stand.

I believe I’m officially done with TtR

Dave, TtR: The Dice Expansion includes a dice cup, eight dice and three sheets of tokens. That might not hit your desired bits for cost ratio, but it’s lower than what you thought it was. A pic of the components is on the DoW website.

Eric

"TtR: The Dice Expansion replaces the train cards for any of the TtR board games. On a turn, a player rolls the five white dice, possibly saving dice and rerolling once, then uses the results to claim a single or double route, draw one or more tickets, or place a station. Players can collect track tokens for dice they don’t use to help them claim routes in future turns.”

That sounds odd - you cant really plan ahead can you?

Board game, card game, dice game, have they left any theme or mechanic unturned?  Hmm, I predict TTR the bidding game!  Themed in Colonial India, players bid to make the train go through their province. :) Plus it comes with sacred cow animeeples for blocking opponent’s tracks! :D

€18,- (wich is more than $20,-) is really expensive for a few materials. Standalone dice games are cheaper than that, and often have more dice in them too. It should be at most €13,- ($15,-) and they could still profit from that.

I once tought DoW was a quality company (well, they were and sometimes they still are) with great new games, lately they seem to have run out of great ideas and charge you a lot for recycled ideas (expansions).

Yech ... I hate it when they do that.

That sounds odd - you cant really plan ahead can you?
Posted by Peer Sylvester

Peer - well they said you could collect track tokens you don’t use for use with future routes. 

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Guess there would be no opportunity to blindly build a hand of specific colors and claim a route - you can definitely be blocked out by other players easier because everything is out in the open.

I’ll echo the refrain:  Eight custom dice, a dice cup and some cardboard counters for USD $20?

And enough of the Ticket to Ride stuff already!  Since when did Days of Wonder become synonymous with a complete lack of creativity?  And a dearth of originality to boot?  To me, this is like the “Kill Dr. Lucky and his Little Dog Too” product nightmare. 

$20.00?  Are we even serious, as consumers, to actually think about buying this?  Probably someone is.

Wow.

I don’t know.  But I do think this may add to the growing public relations concerns about this company.  And that’s sad, because I was one of the first in my regular columns to really actively promote Days of Wonder as an example of what was truly great in the boardgame industry.

That dice cup looks the same as the one I saw for $34 just yesterday. I don’t know if it has the same weighted bottom, but if so then I’m in if just for the dice cup. Plus, it might actually be a good variant on the game! I look forward to at least giving it a try.