Overview

In Ticket to Ride, players collect sets of cards to claim railway routes on a map. Points are earned for claiming routes (with longer routes being worth more points), connecting certain cities assigned to you, and making the longest contiguous route.

Terms

Train Car Card - These are used to claim routes. Collect a set that matches the route's color and length, then discard it to claim the route (placing your trains on that route). There are eight train car types/colors, plus one Locomotive. Locomotives are multicolored and act as wildcards that can be included in any set of cards when claiming a route.

Destination Ticket - A tan card that shows two cities connected by a route. This is an objective card: complete the route to earn the points depicted on the lower right. For each Destination Ticket not completed by game end, the ticket's value is subtracted from your score.

Gameplay

On your turn, you may take one of the following three actions:

Draw Train Cards

You may draw two cards from either the set of five face-up cards or the deck. You can take one from each, unless you take a Locomotive card. You can only take one face-up Locomotive card in a turn. If you take a card from the deck or a colored Train Car card from the five face-up cards, you will be prevented from taking a Locomotive card.

Note: If you draw from the deck, you may be lucky enough to get a Locomotive. That still counts as a single card, and you may still draw two cards that turn.

Claim a Route

To claim a route, select a set of train car cards with the same color and drag it onto the route you wish to claim. You can also click on a route, then the set of cards. Locomotives will be automatically used. The route must match the color of the cards you are using or be gray. You can use any color cards to claim a gray route (they must still be the same color).

Some routes have two colors. In 2- or 3-player games, only one of those routes can be claimed. The other becomes closed to other players. In 4- or 5- player games, both routes can be claimed by two different players.

Routes range from size 1 to 5. The longer the route, the more points it is worth.

Draw Destination Tickets

Draw 3 new Destination Ticket cards. You must keep at least one, but can keep two or all three if you choose. The values of any Destination Ticket cards not connected by the end of the game are deducted from your score.

Scoring

When a player claims a route, they immediately score the number of points indicated for the length of the route just claimed.

Game End

When any player has 2 or fewer train cars left, the end game is triggered. Each player (including the player who triggered the game end) gets one final turn.

Each player gains/loses points for Destination Tickets. The player with the longest continuous path of train cars on the map gains 10 points.

Variants

1910

• Destination Tickets from the 1910 expansion are used.
• Instead of a Longest Route bonus, the player who completed the most Destination Tickets receives a 10-point Globetrotter bonus.

Mega

• Combines Destination Tickets from the base game and 1910 expansion.
• Longest Route bonus and Globetrotter bonus is awarded, each worth ten points. The same player may earn both.
• At game start, each player is dealt 5 Destination Tickets and must keep at least 3.
• When a player draws new Destination Tickets, they draw 4 (instead of 3). They still only need to keep 1.

Cities

• All Destination Tickets contain at least one "big city" (Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, or Seattle).
• At game start, each player is dealt 4 Destination Tickets and must keep at least 2.
• When a player draws new Destination Tickets, they draw 4 (instead of 3). They still only need to keep 1.
• No one is awarded a 10-point bonus.