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The 5 Hows: Ticket to Ride
Nov
9
2022
This is a guide for how to play the game Ticket to Ride.
1. How do I win?
By having the most points at the end of the game
2. How do I get points?
By making train routes. Just playing a train route gets you some points, but connecting routes to destinations gets you more points.
3. How do I make a train route?
Each route is marked on the board by colors. When you have enough cards of that color, you spend the cards needed for that route (one card per train car) and then you get to put your train tokens on that route.
4. How do I get train cards?
Each turn, you can do one of 3 things: draw train cards, play a train route, or draw more route cards. Question 3 went over how to play a train route. For how to get train cards, just draw them from the pile. You can draw from the 5 face-up cards or from the face-down pile. Normally you draw 2 cards, but if you draw a face-up wild card you get only 1.
5. How do the route cards work?
At the beginning of the game, you draw some starting train cards and also some starting route cards. Those are your goals. Actually they’re called destination cards because the game doesn’t care what route you take to connect the cities. If you can play your trains to connect a route, you get the points on that route card. If, at the end of the game, you didn’t fulfill that route then the points are subtracted from your total. If, during the game, you’ve made all your routes then you can take additional routes.
Note: this is for the USA edition of TTR. They have other maps, so you could buy TTR with routes in Europe or Asia or such. Some of those have other features such as tunnels or mountain passes that have additional rules.
There, now go play Ticket to Ride.
Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!
2 Kings 18:23
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