GuppyGamer
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Ticket to Ride
This was the first grown-up game that I was able to get my youngest daughter, Anna, to enjoy. She was only 6 years old and had some trouble keeping track of the destinations. We made two modifications that really made her fall in love with the game.
1) Open destinations. Keep the destination cards face up. Anna had a hard enough time keeping track of her multi-colored train cards, let alone the destination cards. Keeping them face up in front of her made it easier.
2) Use colored markers on the map to indicate each player’s destinations. This really helped my daughter go beyond the typical linearity of most kid strategies and consider a network instead.
I would also urge any parent using this variant to avoid exploiting a blocking strategy until your kid figures it out for themselves. Fewer tears that way.