The player who has visited the most European countries in his lifetime begins the game, and play then proceeds clockwise. Points are deducted from the players' total score for each of their Destination Tickets that are not successfully completed by the end of the game. Successfully completing a continuous path of routes between two cities listed on your Destination Ticket(s) Ĭompleting the Longest Continuous Path of routes to win the European Express Bonus card Īnd for each Train Station kept in reserve at the end of the game. Points can be scored by:Ĭlaiming a Route between two adjacent cities on the map

The object of the game is to score the highest total number of points. The tickets you decide to keep are held until the end of the game. The Tickets that are put away may either be long routes or regular ones. Put any Destination Tickets you wish to discard back in the game box without letting any of the other players see them. Each player must keep a minimum of two tickets although they may keep more. Beginning of the Gameīefore taking their first turn, players must choose which Destination Tickets they will keep from among those they were initially dealt.

Now shuffle the regular Destination Tickets - all short routes with a plain background -, deal three to each player, and place the remainder in a draw pile face down, next to the board. Put any remaining long routes back in the game box without letting anyone see them. Take the deck of Destination Tickets and separate the long routes (the six Destination Tickets with a blue background) from the regular routes Shuffle the long routes, and randomly deal one to each player. Place the European Express Bonus and the Summary card, face up, next to the board, as a reminder to the players. 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. Shuffle the Train cards and deal a starting hand of four cards to each player. Throughout the game, each time a player scores points, he will advance his marker accordingly. Each player receives a set of 45 Colored Train Cars, a matching set of three Colored Train Stations and the corresponding Scoring Marker.Įach player places his Scoring marker on Start on the Scoring Track running along the map's border. Place the board in the center of the table. Note: Players familiar with the first game in this series, Ticket to Ride, should focus their attention on the following new features: Ferries, Tunnels and Train Stations. Will you risk a trip through the dark tunnels of Switzerland? Venture aboard a ferry on the Black Sea? Or erect lavish train stations in the great capitals of the old empires? Your next move might just make you Europe's greatest train magnate! Components From the craggy hillsides of Edinburgh to the sunlit docks of Constantinople, from the dusty alleys of Pamplona to a windswept station in Berlin, Ticket to Ride Europe takes you on a new train adventure through the great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe.

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