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.
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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.
If two (or more) players are tied for the longest train, then they each score 10 points. The player with the most points wins the game. In the unlikely event that two or more players are tied for first place, the player who has completed the most destination tickets is the winner.
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.
The Board Game Geek community gives it a complexity rating of 1.9/5. I agree it's a medium-light game that offers more than it requires of players. Who Will Enjoy It? If you're the sort of person who likes to play nice and isn't too competitive, you should probably check out Ticket to Ride.
Some routes – those that are Gray colored – can be claimed using a set of cards of any one color. When a route is claimed, the player places one of his plastic trains in each of the spaces of the route. All the cards in the set used to claim the route are then discarded. A player may claim any open route on the board.
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).
If you need to travel on a different date, you will need to cancel your ticket and buy a new one. Your ticket is refundable (with no admin fee) if the service you planned to travel on is delayed or cancelled, and you choose not to travel.
You can buy Anytime tickets at any time before you travel, and you can use your Anytime ticket to travel on any train on the route shown. You can also break your journey at stations along the route. Anytime tickets have no restrictions on what time you can travel.