The Ticket to Ride Monster Expansion was out of stock in North America for a few months, but is available once again from game retailers in US and Canada as well as from the Days of Wonder web store.

It must be time for a Monster attack on your Ticket to Ride board!

Small World 2, the brand new digital version of our award-winning board game – with 3-5 player maps, asynchronous online play, the Be Not Afraid… expansion and more – is coming to the iPad and the Kindle Fire, to Android tablets and PCs running Steam, thanks to the support of the thousands of backers who’ve joined our Kickstarter campaign this past three weeks.

Don’t miss out on your chance to Meet the Igors, the newest Small World 2 race Philippe has designed specifically for this campaign, and discover all the other rewards that await you if you choose to support us on Kickstarter.

These include:

• 3 New Races & 3 New Special Powers for the game (in digital and cardboard format)
• A whole new 6 player cardboard Map for Small World and Small World Underground
• A Small World Pocket Encyclopedia detailing all races & special powers from the base game and its Cursed!, Grand Dames and Be Not Afraid… expansions
• and a truly special Deluxe Designer Edition of Small World, signed by the Author, numbered and engraved with your name!

Thanks to our backers, not only did we reach our original goal, paving the way for a release of Small World 2 on Android tablets and PCs with Steam within the next 12 months; we’ve also nailed our first stretch goal, ensuring a reprint of our long-gone Leaders expansion, which we will expand to cover all Small World races released to date.

But with your help, we could do even better. We’re only a few hundred backers short of reprinting Necromancer Island! So if you’re a Small world fan, it’s time to step up, visit our Kickstarter page and get in on the Small World 2 goodies before it’s too late. You’ll be kicking yourself if you miss out!

We’ll have munchies, sodas, some swag to give away and of course a truckload of Days of Wonder board games like Ticket to Ride, Small World, Memoir ’44, Shadows over Camelot and more. You’re also welcome to bring your own board games to play with old gaming friends, or to share with new ones.
Join Days of Wonder and other Bay Area board gamers on Saturday March 30 for International TableTop Day.

Where:
AOL Building
395 Page Mill Rd., 1st Floor
Palo Alto, CA 94306

When:
12 Noon-4 PM
on Saturday, March 30th

Visit our Tabletop Day Facebook Event page to RSVP.

As the very first board game available the day the iPad launched, Small World pioneered a whole new world of board games on tablets. It earned critical acclaim and hordes of devoted players, but aside from a few mini-expansions, barely changed since its launch. But for the past year our development team in Paris has been working on a “from-the-ground-up” rewrite of the game; and Small World 2 – a brand new version with 3-5 player maps, asynchronous online play, the Be Not Afraid expansion and more – will be available on the iPad later this summer.

Whenever we mention iPad, we get comments along the lines of, “Android! Android! And what about my PC?!” Well, our new Small World 2 Kickstarter campaign is your chance to make this happen. If we reach our $150,000 goal, we will release Small World 2 on Android and Kindle Fire tablets, and onto Steam PCs, all within the next 12 months.

To encourage everyone – not just Android tablet and PC users – to pledge in this campaign, we’ve come up with rewards of interest to all players of Small World, both the digital and cardboard version. Philippe Keyaerts, the author of the game, has created new Races and Special Powers specially for Kickstarter backers and devised a new super-sized, 6 player cardboard map of Small World and Small World Underground.

Our Art and Production departments have also been busy laying out a Pocket Encyclopedia of Small World; printing a new Small World t-shirt; and putting the finishing touches on a spare-no-expense, deluxe Designer Edition of Small World – signed by the author and engraved with your name!

So if you love Small World, in any shape or any platform, come visit our Kickstarter page, watch the video and pledge your money on some of the coolest rewards we’ve ever designed for a game.

Come and meet us on our booth (20.01) if you’re around…

We will demo Shadows over Camelot – the Card Game ; Ticket to Ride – Heart of Africa and Small World Realms.

• Order Ticket to Ride Replacement Cards here
• Order Ticket to Ride Europe Replacement Cards here

Note that the Ticket to Ride Replacement cards are the original smaller card size. If you prefer to play with larger cards, you may wish to order the Ticket to Ride 1910 Expansion which features larger format train cards, plus 39 new Destination Tickets and 3 new ways to play Ticket to Ride.

Small World was the first board game EVER on the iPad – if you were one of those who waited in line at your Apple store that day, you could start playing the minute you got home. Fans and critics alike loved it. But our development team quickly turned their focus onto Ticket to Ride for iPad making it look like we had abandoned Small World.

Not so… Small World 2 for iPad is now well underway and it will ship later this year; but we want to make this more than just a simple upgrade.  We have tons of ideas for add-ons to the project – not just more features and expansions, but also new platforms to support – and some really cool swag to complement the board game.

On the digital side, we’re already well underway in adding the 3-5 player maps, online network play with a brand new asynchronous server and more. With support from the Kickstarter community and our fan base, we hope to make these new features available as a free upgrade to all existing Small World for iPad players.  And we’d like to go even further – developing additional expansions such as Realms or Small World Underground (Be Not Afraid… is already in the works); and adding support for many more digital platforms, such as Steam and Android.

On the boardgame side, we’ve got some insanely fun game components that we’ve been dreaming of producing for years, but simply couldn’t justify producing, including Philippe Keyaerts’ very own deluxe tokens; an over-the-top, over-sized Small World Designer Edition; finely detailed 3D figures of our favorite Small World races; and more…

But the only way we can produce these expensive add-ons is if we know precisely how many to make. And your Kickstarter pledge levels will tell us exactly that, as well as how many additional digital expansions and platforms we can justify supporting. So visit our Kickstarter page to watch the video, learn more and discover all the cool rewards your pledges could earn you!

We have reprinted new Mass cards, so if you have incorrect cards (i.e., each card says “pass 2 cards”), we’d like to send you the corrected versions for free.

To qualify for the free replacement deck program you must have a registered copy of Mystery of the Abbey  and be logged into your Days of Wonder account.

To get your free replacement Mystery of the Abbey Mass cards, click Mystery Mass Card Replacement Deck to order yours.

The (penitent) Monks at the Days of Wonder Abbey

In addition to the new vertical map, this expansion introduces 45 new Terrain Cards – 3 distinct Terrain types associated with different Route colors. Drawn just like Train cards, when played timely they might help the players double the value of the routes they claim.

Designed for 2-5 players, ages 8+, Ticket to Ride – The Heart of Africa includes the new map, Destination Ticket, Terrain cards and multi-lingual rules booklet. This expansion requires Train cards and Trains from either Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe.

Ticket to Ride – The Heart of Africa is available now from the Days of Wonder webstore and better game stores worldwide. Get on board and explore Africa by rail this holiday season. Order your copy now!

Learn more about Ticket to Ride – The Heart of Africa or visit the Days of Wonder web store.

If you spend $50/€40 or more in the Days of Wonder web store between now and midnight (PST) on Thursday, December 6th, we’ll give you a free copy of Ticket to Ride Steam – the best online adaptation yet of Days of Wonder’s best-selling train game for either Windows or Macintosh. Featuring both online play against tens of thousands of live opponents and solo play with up to 4 AI players, Ticket to Ride Steam is the perfect way to get your online Train game fix. Get more details about Ticket to Ride Steam here.

And more importantly, in the name of all of you, this year Days of Wonder is donating $10,000 worth of board games to Child’s Play – a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children by making toys and games available in over 70 hospitals worldwide. We think that Child’s Play really makes a difference for hospitalized kids. We encourage you to learn more about this charity – and of course, if you wish, to make your own donation at the Child’s Play website.

To get your free game, select your web store below. Then, order $50/€40 or more of products. Ticket to Ride Steam will then be automatically added to your order and your free Steam code emailed to you when you complete your order. But act now!  This offer is only available from now until midnight (PST), on Thursday December 6th.

We will process orders as they are received, but we do expect some backlog. To make sure you get your purchase in plenty of time for Christmas, we plan to have all orders out the door no later than Dec. 14.  Also note that there are no substitutions for the free game. If you already own Ticket to Ride Steam, consider gifting it to someone else.

Happy Holidays from your friends at Days of Wonder!

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The Small Print: To qualify for the free game, your order must include $50/€40 or more of Days of Wonder games or online products, not including tax and shipping costs. Web Store Discount Coupons, if you have them, can be applied to your order, but the purchase amount must still be $50/€40 or above. This offer only applies to purchases from the Days of Wonder web store from November 29 to December 6, 2012 while supplies last. Sorry, no substitutions for free game.