Thurn and Taxis wins the SdJ!

By now everyone should have heard that Thurn und Taxis has won the prestigious 2006 Spiel des Jahres award.

Thurn und Taxis and Blue Moon City were the front runners for this award. I have not played Blue Moon City yet. I'm am waiting impatiently for Fantasy Flight Games to release the english language version.

I have seen Thurn und Taxis compared with Ticket To Ride. It seems to me that any similarities between the two games are superficial at best. Thurn und Taxis has much more of a "euro" game feel to me. Ticket To Ride feels more... what? Open? Wild? Confrontational? It's hard to describe. Maybe the best way to describe the difference is that Ticket To Ride has more of an "american" game feel to it.

I like both a games a lot. I would not say that one game is like the other.