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Do you prefer euro style (indirect competition) or american (direct competition). Ticket to ride is euro style where everyone is trying to achieve their own goals and the only real interaction is resource denial. (Taking routes or cards another person needs). Stuff like risk and werewolf is more american style due to directly competing and fighting/lynching each other.

In general, American style but definitely open to either.

Do you prefer competitive or cooperative?

Team competitive would probably be ideal (as long as it can also be played 1 on 1), but again, we're open!

How complex of games do you like. I usually just use boardgamegeek as a guess point but i usually like decent complexity because I find it makes its more interesting. Although for party games I tend to want it to be easier so it's easy to explain.

Probably tend toward the easier end

How do you feel about Timed stuff? Pandemic has a spinoff called Rapid Response that has that cooperative nature but with a timer.

We're down!

Do you like wordplay stuff? Codenames is a good game and has a duet version for 2 people.

Not big on word games (these tend to be flimsier with rules) but we do enjoy Codenames quite a bit

What exactly about Ticket to ride do you guys like? There are other games with elements similar to it. Is it the hidden agendas or the fast simple turns? Or the having to balance getting resources and using them

So I think the thing about TTR is that it really hits the sweet spot of a lot of things you mentioned before. It's not too hard to pick up (maybe 1 or 2 games at most), but each new session sort of reveals a hidden depth to it that you don't necessarily pick up on at first. We also like TTR because you can play it from various angles (ie, you can play to screw over the better player or you can stick to your own devices and try to win that way). And finally, it is about the ideal length that we want in a game.


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