Belarus (fan expansion for Ticket to Ride)

Description

--- Unofficial fan-made Ticket to Ride expansion featuring special board, Tourist cards, spanners, and new rules for strategic route-building and scoring (22 words). Key mechanics include: - *Route planning* Utilizes minimaps to plan and execute routes across a special board without grey or parallel tracks. - *Tourist cards* Additional city cards with point values, dealt like destination tickets with keep/dispose rules. - *Spanners* Track features that provide help or hindrance, with optional variants in spanner pack. - *Enhanced card management* Options to exchange all cards at start (keeping new ones), discard 5 and draw 5 as a turn. - *Flexible scoring and ending* Extra point opportunities; call game end when wagon stock reaches 3 trains to block opponents. This unofficial, fan-made expansion for Ticket to Ride adheres to core game principles on a custom board with specialized cards and rules, requiring components from US or Europe base sets. Players score points by claiming routes, outmaneuvering rivals, using minimaps for planning, and collecting Tourist cards that reward visiting specific cities under standard ticket draw/keep mechanics. Spanners on tracks introduce variable effects, while new rules expand options: fully exchange starting cards (retaining draws), treat discarding 5 cards for 5 new as a full turn, access bonus points, and strategically end the game at 3 remaining trains to prevent opponents from completing tickets. Produced with Days of Wonder permission for non-commercial use. ---