An especially big event this year as 24 teams (representing at least 16 countries) took part.

Congratulations to this year Champion Unity Express Germany and to the Austrian Troublemakers, their runner-up (For your reference, this team was the ‘07 Champion)! Captains of those teams will shortly be contacted by PM so that we can organize the prizes collection.

Special thanks to the Tournament Director and all the people who helped this event to be possible once more…

All the results can be found on Tickipedia’s Nations Cup page.

The Dice expansion should begin shipping to customers who pre-ordered from our web store around November 19 and they will be available in retail stores at the same time. We apologize for the delay.

In this expansion, players still attempt to complete their Destination Tickets and claim routes and block each other on the map. But rather than draw and collect Train cards, they roll five custom Train dice each turn. Depending on the outcome they can reroll some or all, then use the dice to claim routes on the board; grab Route Tokens for future use; or draw more Destination Tickets. For board maps that feature Tunnel routes, such as Ticket to Ride Europe, 3 Tunnel dice are also included.

Ticket to Ride - The Dice Expansion includes: 5 custom Train dice, 3 Tunnel dice, 1 Ticket to Ride dice cup, Route tokens and Rules booklet and comes in a small cube shaped box.

It requires trains, Destination Tickets and a board map from any of the Ticket to Ride series.

The Dice Game Expansion is multi-lingual with rules in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

It will be available in October 2008 in both the US and Europe and will debut at the Essen Trade Fair in Germany. You can preorder your copy now from the Days of Wonder Web Store.

Order your copy now !

Playful Entertainment, the publisher of the Xbox Live Arcade version of Ticket to Ride has announced that the second map in the series - Ticket to Ride Europe - will be available for purchase on July 30.

This 2-3 player version in the award winning Ticket to Ride board game series was previously available only in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish languages and features routes across Scandinavia in a vertically-formatted board map.

You can learn more about this upcoming game on the dedicated page on Ticket to Ride website or read the post we published when the game was first released.

This special edition version of Nordic Countries is expected to be available for only a limited time and should hit the shelves in September.

The Xbox Live Arcade version features:

Variable Difficulty Levels: Either locally or in Xbox LIVE® matches, choose Easy, Medium, or Hard A.I. opponents to challenge your gaming skills.

Multiplayer: Play with up to three of your friends on a single console, or take on Ranked or Player matches over Xbox LIVE with up to five players.

Leaderboards and Achievements: Post your Xbox LIVE match results to the leader boards. Follow game stats for each player such as Highest Score, Total Trains Played and Time Spent Playing. And track your progress with twelve new achievements.

Camera support: See yourself and your friends during gameplay with Xbox LIVE Vision Camera support.

Ticket to Ride for the Xbox Live Arcade is available for 800 Microsoft points and is rated E for Everyone by ESRB.

You can learn more about or purchase the Xbox Live Arcade version of Ticket to Ride on Xbox Live Arcade.

Here are some screenshots of the Xbox Live version…

It has taken us some time to get a solution in place, but we have reprinted high-quality replacement cards and are offering them free of charge to those of you who purchased the game and were unsatisfied by the quality of the cards. We will also pay the cost of mailing the replacements out to you.

To qualify for the free replacement card program you must have a registered copy of either Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe and be logged into your Days of Wonder account to order your replacement deck.

Click Switzerland Replacement Deck to order yours.

The Train Engineers at Days of Wonder…

To learn more and enter the contest go to the Card Game Trivia Contest on Boardgamegeek.com. Entries must be made before 12 Midnight, June 9 and all registered BoardGameGeek members worldwide are eligible to play. Winners will be announced on BoardGameGeek.com on Tuesday, June 10.

The USA 1910 expansion features 181 large format cards including: 39 new Destination Tickets, a GlobeTrotter bonus card for completing the most tickets, and replacement cards for all the cards from the original game deck. There are also 3 different ways to play Ticket to Ride. It’s a “must-have” expansion for all Ticket to Ride players.

Learn more or order yours today at the Days of Wonder webstore.