We've sold 130,000 copies of 1st Edition in 4 years. Last year, we reanalyzed it through 2 lenses:

• The thousands of comments about it on Amazon and Board Game Geek.
• Our design principles, which have changed a lot since we published our most acclaimed game, Trekking through History.

Through this we realized there's a better way to build the game, but it would require redesigning the core mechanic, and thus every other mechanic too. We did and the result is Trekking the World 2nd Edition.

No rule is unchanged. Compare their rules here:

• 2nd edition rulebook - 1647 words
• 1st edition rulebook - 2451 words

https://youtu.be/2rbukufOeB8

The three biggest differences:

• 2nd Edition is a drafting & racing game. 1st Edition was a set-collection & racing game
• 2nd Edition has a solo mode and 1st Edition didn’t.
• 2nd Edition features card powers you get for free by going to different destinations, representing your growing experience as a traveler. They’re different every game, and lead to big moments via combos:

Other ways 2nd Edition differs from 1st

• has quicker-to-learn rules