How many train cars do you start with in Ticket to Ride?
Each player takes a set of 45 Colored Train Cars along with its matching Scoring Marker. Each player places his Scoring Marker on Start ?on the Scoring Track running along the map's border. Throughout the game, each time a player scores points, he will advance his marker accordingly.
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Each player starts with four colored train cards in hand and two tickets; each ticket shows two cities, and you're trying to connect those two cities with a contiguous path of your trains in order to complete the ticket.
Ticket to Ride: First Journey is geared at younger gamers who aren't quite ready for the full game. This version uses pictures on the game board and route cards so reading is not required to play. It also simplifies the scoring, rather than earning points, players are racing to complete six routes to win the game.
Shuffle the Train cards and deal a starting hand of four cards to each player ?. Place the remaining deck of Train cards near the board, then turn the top five cards from the deck face up, and lay them one next to the other ?.
The highest-scoring routes are Seattle to New York (22 points), Los Angeles to New York (21 points), Los Angeles to Miami (20 points), and Vancouver to Montreal (20 points).
The longest route includes all the red trains (50 trains) and does not include all the blue trains of the smaller routes branching off. Note that the branches do not count although they are connected. The Trans America Express (worth 10 points) card in Ticket To Ride is awarded to the player with the longest route.
In most circumstances, you must purchase a ticket before you board a train. On most Amtrak trains, only the full, undiscounted, unrestricted fare will be available for purchase onboard the train. This is regardless of reservations made or fares previously quoted by ticket agents, Amtrak.com or elsewhere.
You can only use the number of trains you start with so you cannot complete routes if you do not have enough trains. You can only place and claim complete routes so you don't get points for playing only six trains. You can place your trains elsewhere on shorter routes to score points.
If you want to compete or want something lighter, go with Ticket to Ride. If you want to dig into the game more or want to win/lose as a group, go with Pandemic. In Ticket to Ride: Europe such simple blocking isn't as big a deal as you can use train stations to complete routes. Thank you all for the replies!
Most train companies offer First Class accommodation on some or all of their routes. But they may also have some routes that are Standard Class only. Check with your train company.
Rules say that stations, and the opponents' routes they may provide access to, do not count for the purpose of computing paths and claiming the longest one.