Question: Which board game was published first, Ticket to Ride, or King of Tokyo?
Context: Plaid Hat Games is a United States-based board game studio.  Plaid Hat Games was founded in 2009.  Board game designer Colby Dauch formed a board game publishing company in order to release the companies first game, Summoner Wars. Ticket to Ride is a turn-based strategy video game, based upon Alan R. Moon's German-style board game of the same name, developed by Next Level Games and published by Playful Entertainment, Inc.  The title was released on June 25, 2008. King of Tokyo is a tabletop game using custom dice, cards, and boards, designed by Richard Garfield and released in 2011.  A New York City-based edition, "King of New York", was published in 2014.  A new version of the game was released in 2016, with all new artwork and characters, as well as mutant monsters, gigantic robots and other creatures. Castle Ravenloft Board Game is a 2010 board game published by Wizards of the Coast.  It was the first game released in the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System board game series. Alhambra (German: Der Palast von Alhambra , literally "The Palace of the Alhambra") is a 2003 tile-based German-style board game designed by Dirk Henn.  It was originally published in Germany by Queen Games in a language-interdependent version; an English-specific version was released in North America by the now-defunct Überplay.  The game is an Arabian-themed update, set during the construction of the Alhambra palace in 14th century Granada, of the 1998 stock trading board game "Stimmt So!" , which in turn was an update of the 1992 mafia influence board game "Al Capone"; the original version was subsequently released as "". Francis Tresham is a United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s.  Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997.  His "1829" game was the first of the "18xx" board game series and some of his board games have inspired Sid Meier computer games such as "Railroad Tycoon". Ticket to Ride is a railway-themed German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon, Illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean, published in 2004 by Days of Wonder.  The game is also known as "Zug um Zug" (German), "Les Aventuriers du Rail" (French), "Aventureros al Tren" (Spanish), "Wsiąść do pociągu" (Polish), and "Menolippu" (Finnish). JunaCon is an annual board game convention held in Turku, Finland since 2010.  It is usually held in late winter or early spring.  The convention concentrates on railroad-themed board games, such as "18XX", "Ticket to Ride" and "TransAmerica/TransEuropa".  The convention's name comes from the Finnish language word ""juna"" ("train") and "-con", short for "convention".  The convention also hosts the annual "Ticket to Ride" Finnish championship, the winner of which is eligible for the "Ticket to Ride" official world championship in Paris, France later in the year. 69 (シクスティナイン , Shikusutinain ) is a roman à clef novel by Ryu Murakami.  It was published first in 1987.  It takes place in 1969, and tells the story of some high school students coming of age in an obscure Japanese city who try to mimic the counter-culture movements taking place in Tokyo and other parts of the world. Pirate and Traveler is a board game published by Milton Bradley in 1911.  Revised editions were published in 1936, 1953, 1956, 1960, and 1970.  Details of the game board, travel cards, spinner, pawns and box art varied between edition years.  The game is no longer in production and is now considered a vintage collectible board game.
Answer: Ticket to Ride