Ticket To Ride board game

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Ticket to ride is not a classic board game yet, but I'm sure it won't take long to become one. Everyone that likes train, map and game should try playing this great board game. The goal in this game of Ticket to ride is to find the best strategies to build railroad path across the land between major cities. This land can be USA, Europe, Germany, Switzerland and the Nordic countries of Europe. For the map lovers out there I have gathered a bunch of Ticket To Ride maps from different countries and will make them available in my next post.

So let's check how this train game works. We have the Ticket To Ride board game showing North American cities, railroad path of different color between them, numbers around the TTR board and a legend showing Ticket To Ride wagons and points (see picture - Ticket To Ride game board). And then we have Ticket To Ride wagon cards, Ticket To Ride destination cards and all the little Ticket To Ride plastic train.

(Ticket To Ride - Game board)


(Ticket To Ride - Wagon cards)

(Ticket To Ride - Destination card)


(Ticket To Ride - Plastic trains)

The game consist of occupying the railroad path between the cities on your TTR destination cards. You start with a fixed limit of wagon card and destination card (ticket card). I won't go in too much game details here, but you need to use different strategies to win the game of Ticket To Ride. Since there's a limited number of path your train can take to go from city to another, you'll have to make sure no other Ticket to ride player will occupy them before you do. Otherwise, you might end up taking long detour to build your path. In a future post I will give my own Ticket To Ride strategies to help you play this game like a pro.

Everytime you make a succefull connection between two linked city you score some points (indicated on your ticket to ride game board legend). For example, if you connect the city of Washington and New York, you would score 2pts. Miami and New Orleand railroad path would give you 13pts.

In addition to those points, if you succeed to connect the two cities on your ticket to ride destination card, you score the points indicated on it. For example, if you connect Winnipeg and Little Rock (picture on the right), you would score and additional 11 points.

In the end, the player with the most points win the game. The points are indicated by moving your icon around the Ticket To Ride board game on the numbers representing your current score.


(Ticket To Ride - Score on game board)

This post was just an introduction to this wonderful board game. I hope you'll get the chance to play ticket to ride soon so we could share some strategy and tip about it. The next post about this train game will feature some other country maps of Ticket To Ride and also some strategies to win this game. And if you really like trains like I do, you can visit this nice train website or train blog, both made by my brother. He talks about old train buildings and tracks and there's a lot of nice pictures.

My other Ticket To Ride post

Ticket To Ride Maps and Rules
The reason why this board game is great is in good part related to the fact that the rules are different for each version of the game. You play the american version for a while then you buy the European version to play an all new set of rules. And for the map lovers, check them out here!

Ticket To Ride Strategies
My secret strategies revealed! You thought this game was to easy to have elaborated strategies... then read this post.

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