As the Spiel-des-Jahres had just been announced and Mark K had not yet played the winning title, we opted to start off with the wonderful Ticket To Ride this week. This has previously been described in our 19th March session report.

When we last played this, we thought our next game would be more cut-throat but, apart from one or two occasions, it didn't turn out to be. I had planned on concentrating on Destination Tickets but managed to get a bit cut off from the West. Having established a good network in the centre of the board, however, I didn't have any particularly long routes. However, I tried my best to connect up towns to maximise my longest route and thought I stood a good chance by the end. Nige managed to beat me by two links and this combined with an early concentration on six stage routes gave him more than enough for a good win.