TICKET TO RIDE
$29.99
Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure where players collect and play matching train car cards to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America.
The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – linking distant cities – and to the player who builds the Longest Continuous Path of railways.
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GAME FEATURES
Collect Train Cars
Gather sets of colored train car cards to match the routes you want to claim on the map.
Claim Railway Routes
Use your collected cards to claim routes between adjacent cities and place your trains on the board.
Complete Destination Tickets
Secretly pursue goals to connect specific distant cities for bonus points, but lose points if incomplete.
Score Points
Earn points for claiming routes, completing tickets, and building the longest continuous railway.
ABOUT THE GAME
Ticket to Ride is an elegantly simple and immensely popular railway-themed board game designed by Alan R. Moon. Since its debut in 2004, it has won numerous awards and become a staple in many board game collections, often recommended as a perfect game for families and newcomers. The game board is a map (often the United States and Southern Canada in the original version) showing various cities connected by railway routes of different colors and lengths.
Players start with a hand of colored Train Car cards and a few Destination Tickets, which show pairs of cities they must connect. On their turn, a player can perform one of three actions: draw more Train Car cards, claim a route by playing matching colored sets of cards, or draw more Destination Tickets. Claiming routes places the player's plastic trains on the board and immediately scores points based on the route's length. The core tension comes from deciding whether to focus on claiming routes, collecting cards for longer routes, or pursuing potentially high-scoring but risky Destination Tickets.
The game ends when one player is low on trains. Points are tallied from claimed routes, completed destination tickets (positive points), uncompleted tickets (negative points), and a bonus for the player with the longest continuous railway. Ticket to Ride's straightforward rules, strategic depth, and beautiful components make it highly accessible and engaging for players of all ages. Its success has led to a wide range of expansions and versions set in different locations around the world.