Let everyone fight over their favorite color train cars and wooden scoring tokens, and distribute them accordingly.Įach player gets 45 train cars of their chosen color. It’s best to lay the board out first to get a sense of your space. You’re going to want a bigger playing area for this one.Ĭlear off the family dining table, the Ticket to Ride board is large on its own and the various card piles end up taking up a lot of room. Getting Ready to Play Ticket to Ride Image Credit: alisdair Flickr I’ll go into more detail about how exactly all these mechanics work later in the guide.įor now, we can move on to setting up the game. Those points might just be the push over the edge to a win. Longest Path: The player with the longest continuous path of train routes earns an extra 10 points and a fancy bonus card to rub in everyone’s faces.The high scores are tempting, but you will lose those points instead if you get caught with the route incomplete at the game’s end! Be careful with the more difficult Destination Tickets, though.
Completing Destination Tickets: Whenever you connect the two cities listed on one of your Destination Ticket cards with a line of continuous train cars, you will earn the point value printed on that card when the game ends.Use the chart provided on the board and on the Summary Card to score routes when they are claimed – longer routes earn you more per train car! Claiming Routes: You can use train car cards of the appropriate color to claim routes between cities on the map.To win a game of Ticket to Ride and prove that you are the most intrepid traveler at the table, you must score the most points. 5 Wooden Markers: One for each player color, used to track score.Very useful for the poor player sitting on the side of the table opposite the one printed on the board. 1 Summary Card: This has a scoring guide printed on it.1 Longest Continuous Path Card: This will be awarded at the end of the game to the player with the longest uninterrupted train route.Be careful, though, if you get caught with any of these unfinished at the end of the game you lose points from those instead! 30 Destination Ticket Cards: These serve as secret goals for each player, with cities you can connect for extra points.There are also 14 Locomotives, which act as wild cards -these can be played as any color.
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