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Ticket to Ride lays track on the iPad

The emergence of digital distribution has been a wonderful thing for the tabletop gaming crowd. You can play Catan on your Xbox; Risk on your PC or iOS device. Now, Ticket to Ride is available on the iPad. In Ticket to Ride, players pull colored train cards, hoping to complete any number of designated train routes on a large game board -- the United States and Europe are among the most well-known maps.

The $6.99 iPad app (developed by Days of Wonder) looks to offer the full experience: You can play online; there's full Game Center support; and optional Europe, Switzerland and USA 1910 maps, available for $.99 each during this special launch week window, can be downloaded in-game.%Gallery-124061%