Some cities are connected by two parallel routes that can each be claimed by a different player (unless the game is played by three 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. play their collected railway car cards from their hand to claim a route on the board 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 one of three options: Once kept, a destination ticket may not be discarded for the rest of the game. The player must keep at least two of these destination cards and discard unwanted tickets, if any, to the bottom of the stack.

These become goals, representing two end-points which players are secretly attempting to connect. They are also dealt three Destination Ticket cards, each of which shows a pair of cities on a map of the United States and southern Canada.

4.6 Ticket to Ride with Alexa Digital AssistantĪt the beginning of the main game, players are dealt four train car cards as their playing hand.

4.5 Ticket to Ride Pocket (iPhone and iPod Touch).

As of October 2014, over three million copies were reported sold, with retail sales of over $150 million. As of August 2008, over 750,000 copies of the game had been sold according to the publisher. Ticket to Ride: Europe won the 2005 International Gamers Award. 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.

Points are earned based on the length of the claimed routes, whoever completes the longest continuous railway, and whether the player can connect distant cities that are determined by drawing ticket cards. Players collect and play train car cards to claim train routes across the map. Localized editions have subsequently been published depicting maps of other countries, cities and regions. The original version of the game is played on a board depicting a railway map of the United States and southern Canada. 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). It was illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean and published in 2004 by Days of Wonder. Ticket to Ride is a railway-themed German-style board game designed by Alan R. Ticket to RideĮnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Icelandic, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Danish, Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Greek For the song by The Beatles, see Ticket to Ride (song).

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