"Ticket to Acquire"

Many of you know we are big gamers. Every time we move I am amazed at how many boxes we fill with games. Unfortunately, most of them are in storage as our apartment doesn't allow for our collection but a few made the cut to live with us.

These are two of our favorites. I've played Acquire since I was young and am really happy that my husband loves it too. John was given Ticket to Ride for Christmas.


John doesn't like to just play games, though. He's always trying to make them better OR to create his own game. Making a game that combined building airlines and buying their stock has been an idea of his for a long time. Most of his ideas are possible by combining these two games, causing the game set-up to look like this at the beginning:


We're still working out the details but "Ticket to Acquire" is showing great promise. Below shows what the board looked like at the end of the most recent game.


Anybody want to come over and play?