A ten-point bonus is awarded to the player who has the longest continuously connected set of routes.Įxplanation of the railroad cars depicted on the train cards Additional points are awarded for having successfully connected the destinations on the cards, whereas points are subtracted for any incomplete tickets. When this occurs, every player then plays one additional turn, after which they each reveal their previously hidden destination tickets. The game ends when one player has exhausted or nearly exhausted his or her supply of coloured train pieces. The routes score points by themselves, as mentioned above, but routes not connected to a player's destination do not help him or her in reaching the destination or completing his or her destination ticket. On his or her turn, a player can claim any route anywhere on the board that has not already been claimed, regardless of whether the route helps to complete his or her destination tickets. Longer routes are worth progressively more points than shorter routes, e.g., a route of length four is worth more than two routes of length two. The same player may not claim both parallel routes between two adjacent cities. Some cities are connected by two parallel routes that can each be claimed by a different player (unless the game is played by 3 or fewer players, in which case only one of the routes can be claimed).

The routes are of varying lengths (requiring varying numbers of matching coloured cards), and each discrete route marked on the board can be claimed by only a single player. Note: a player may only execute one of the options above per turn. play their collected railway car cards from their hand to claim routes on the board which is a map of the United States and southern Canada and place the corresponding number of train pieces from their store on the claimed route, thereby earning points.draw three additional destination ticket cards and keep at least one (replacing undesired tickets at the bottom of the stack), or.draw two railway car cards in various colours from the draw piles (with the restriction that drawing a wild Locomotive card face up forfeits drawing another card), or.Each player also selects a group of 45 colored train pieces with a matching scoring marker.Įach turn, the player has to choose from three options: Once kept, a destination ticket may not be discarded for the rest of game. The player must keep at least two of these destination cards and discard unwanted tickets to the bottom of the stack, if any. These become goals, representing two end-points which players are secretly attempting to connect. 'destination ticket' cards, each of which shows a pair of cities on the map. As of October 2014, reported numbers are over three million copies, with retail sales of over $150 million.Īt the beginning of the main game, players are dealt four train car cards as their playing hand. As of August 2008, over 750,000 copies of the game have been sold according to the publisher. Ticket to Ride: Europe won the 2005 International Gamers Award. 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).The game won the 2004 Spiel des Jahres, the Origins Award for Best Board Game of 2004, the 2005 Diana Jones award, the 2005 As d'Or Jeu de l'année, and placed second in the Schweizer Spielepreis for Family Games. Moon, Illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean, published in 2004 by Days of Wonder. Ticket to Ride is a railway-themed German-style board game designed by Alan R. 4.2.6 Map Collection 5: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania.4.2.4 Map Collection 3: Heart of Africa.4.2.3 Map Collection 2: India and Switzerland.

4.2.2 Map Collection 1: Team Asia and Legendary Asia.

3.3.5 Ticket to Ride Pocket (iPhone and iPod Touch).3.3.2 Ticket to Ride: The Computer Game.

Ticket to ride 6 players