Days of Wonder publishes top-quality, family-oriented board games that are easy to learn and fun to play. Their name is derived from the "sense of wonder" experienced where as children you first fell in love with playing games. In 2004, Days of Wonder became the youngest publisher ever to win Germany's prestigious Spiel des Jahres, the world's most coveted game prize, with the launch of its best-selling Ticket to Ride board game series.

With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride (TTR) can be learned in under 15 minutes. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route. The tension comes from being forced to balance adding more cards to your hand and fear of losing a critical route to a competitor. Since its introduction and numerous subsequent awards, Ticket to Ride has become the epitome of a "gateway game" – simple enough to be taught in a few minutes, and with enough action and tension to keep new players involved and in the game for the duration. There are now more than twenty over new games and expansions in the TTR series!