Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
103 questions players ask about Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-01.
Setup and Campaign Basics
- Do coins carry over between games, and how much money do you start with?
- Is the money supply limited, or can I use substitute tokens?
- Is the number of train cards and tickets in each player's hand public information?
- Can I play the first game, then reset the campaign without making permanent changes?
- Can a player miss a game, or join the campaign late?
- Do I have to write anything on the back of the company box?
- Which frontier board do I add at the end of a game?
- What happens to newspapers dealt in starting hands or the face-up row at setup?
- Do I redraw the face-up cards if four or five of them are locomotives?
Newspapers and Events
- What happens when a newspaper comes up while refilling the face-up train row?
- When a newspaper is drawn, must the replacement card come from the deck?
- Where do newspapers go after they are resolved?
- When the current event is retired, do I draw a replacement event?
- Is an event with a lightning bolt replaced after it takes effect?
- Who retires an event at the end of a game, and is it mandatory?
- If the only card in the event discard pile is the current event, can it be retired at game end?
- What do I do when the event A New Horizon comes up?
- What happens if the event deck runs out?
Claiming Routes and Piggybacking
- When is piggybacking on a claimed route allowed?
- What colour cards do I play to piggyback on a claimed route?
- In a 2- or 3-player game, can I piggyback on one side of a double route?
- How many times can I piggyback in one game?
- What do I get when I piggyback: shares and ticket credit?
- Can I claim more than one route of a double or triple route?
- Can I sticker the second side of a double trackbed in a later game?
- Are trackbeds grey, and does claiming one in my company colour give the company bonus?
- On a double with a trackbed and a grey route, must I use the trackbed?
Company Routes, Towns and Large Cities
- Does a grey route earn the company bonus if I pay with my company colour?
- Does the company bonus pay for placing stickers, or only for claiming routes?
- How much do I pay when my route touches company towns?
- Where can company town stickers and large-city stickers go?
- Do I place a company town every game?
- When do I draw a card for claiming into a large city?
- Who places a large city at the end of each game?
Game End, Tickets and Postcards
- Do I punch completed tickets at the end of the first game?
- When is a punched ticket retired?
- Do I keep my tickets from one game to the next?
- Are unfinished tickets added or subtracted at game end?
- What if we forgot to punch tickets at the end of a game and played on?
- How many postcards can I take at the end of a game?
- When several tickets qualify, do I choose which postcard to take?
- If I do not take a ticket's postcard, is the ticket still retired?
- Can a postcard drawn at game end be completed in the same game?
Employees
- How does the Locomotive Engineer work, and can it be used more than once?
- Does the Locomotive Engineer's pair count as a locomotive for the robber, tunnels and repairs?
- How are employees picked at the end of a game?
- When do I punch an employee card, and when is it retired?
- What can the Financier do after the errata?
- How does the Gambler work, and can I look at the ticket?
- Can the Psychic be used when the draw pile is empty or when I do not draw?
- How do the Vice President, Conductor and Silent Partner work?
Open Range and the Robber
- When does the robber move?
- Where can the robber move: along track, or to any city?
- What does the robber cost me, and when?
- Is the robber guaranteed to retire if Dead Man's Gulch is never found?
- Where does the money on Dead Man's Gulch come from?
- What does the event I Found Dead Man's Gulch let me discard?
- Does Train Robbers! retire automatically once Dead Man's Gulch is gone?
- With the Wanted event active, in what order do I resolve my claim and an extra locomotive?
- Does the US Marshals postcard stay in my office between games?
Sierra Madre Treasure Hunts
Haunted Wastes, Curses and the Ghost Train
- Do curses stay after the Ghost Train is retired, and how do I remove them?
- Does a curse that stops me collecting money block money an event sends me?
- Which routes does the Ghost Train curse, and does a parked train matter?
- Which routes count for the Stroke of Midnight event, and what happens when it is retired?
- What are the faces of the Ghost Train die?
- Where do the tunnel rules come from in the Haunted Wastes?
- Does a Haunted Wastes curse remove trains I already placed there?