First Monopoly, then Catan, and now Netflix has announced a movie based on the Ticket to Ride board game

Another day, another example of Netflix continuing to expand its roster of film and TV projects by walking into the board game aisle of a Target, pointing at a random box, and going: "That one."

Last April Netflix successfully bid for the rights to make a reality series based on board game Monopoly, and followed that up in October when it announced it was working on multiple "scripted and unscripted" projects based on the Settlers of Catan board game.

Now it's pried open the lid of...