The train cards come in 9 different colours – red, white, yellow, blue, black, pink, green, orange, and multi-coloured – they are also symbolised for those who may be colour blind. There are also 3 extra carriages of each colour supplied as spares.Īll of the cards are normal playing card size, and are of very good quality with a linen finish. They fit perfectly on the railway tracks and are an ideal size to hold, and place, with your fingers.
The plastic train carriages are just over 2cm long and made from rigid plastic. There is a scoring track running around the outside, which has good-sized numbers that are clear and easy to read. Railways join all the major cities, each in a colour that indicates the requirement to claim it. The board is a nice and large, linen finish map, representing Europe, with the sepia tones and artwork placing it in the early 20th century. 5 Wooden scoring markers (1 in each of the five colours).124 Train cards (110 carriage cards, and 14 locomotives).15 Coloured plastic train stations (3 each of the above colours).240 Coloured plastic train carriages (black, blue, green, red, and yellow).* A gricer is a fanatical railway enthusiast – there, you learn something new everyday! Is this just for gricers*? Or is it a runaway success for everyone? Ticket to Ride is a card drafting, set collecting, route building game, which sees players racing to complete routes, joining countries across Europe. Aah! But wait, I have three red cards, and there’s Zagreb to Sarajevo, come to daddy! It might not mean much to you, but that’s just given me the longest continuous path… and the game! I can’t complete any more routes, but maybe someone else can, can I block them? It’s doubtful, the cards in my hand aren’t great, and at this point in the game everyone has either completed their routes or been thwarted already. The game is tight and I only have four trains left. Keep the tickets secret until the end of the game.Gary had just played his last train carriage, signalling the final round. Each player must keep at least two Destination Tickets or more if they wish. Shuffle all the Regular Tickets and deal three to each player place the remaining deck of cards facedown as a draw pile next to the board.Īll players must decide which Destination Tickets they would love to keep for the entire game before taking their first turn. Any remaining Long Tickets will not be used in the game. Separate the 6 Long and 40 Regular Destination Tickets Shuffle the Long Tickets and deal one to each player. Place the European Express Bonus (the longest chain of train cars) card next to the board during the whole game. Make sure there are no more than three Locomotive cards or discard all these five cards then replace them with five new ones. Turn the top five cards face up from the deck. The remaining Train Car cards will form a draw pile. Shuffle all the Train Car cards deal four to each player at the start. Place the Scoring Marker on zero (start) on the Scoring Track running along the map's border.
Each player takes 45 coloured Train Cars, the matching coloured Train Stations and its Scoring Marker. Spread out the board map in the centre of the table.