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France's Asmodee Group acquires 'Ticket to Ride' board-game maker Days of Wonder

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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French game distributor Asmodee Group has acquired Days of Wonder, the maker of the popular Ticket to Ride board game.

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The Asmodee logo.

With the acquisition, Paris-based Asmodee Group will have a new foothold in the U.S. game market as well as access to Days of Wonder’s design team, which can make both paper board games and digital titles. The move shows that making paper-based board games in an age of app stores can still be a lucrative business.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.