Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries FAQ
71 questions players ask · Updated Nov 9, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Components
- How many trains does each player get in Nordic Countries?
- Can Nordic Countries be played with four or five players?
- Can I use the Nordic Countries box to play other Ticket to Ride maps such as India, Switzerland or Nederland?
- Does Nordic Countries have stations like Europe?
- Is the Nordic Countries train card deck different from the Europe or USA deck?
Turn Actions and Drawing Cards
- Is there a limit on drawing locomotives in Nordic Countries?
- After drawing a locomotive, do I still draw a second card, and can it be anything?
- Do three face-up locomotives force the face-up row to be discarded and refilled in Nordic Countries?
- Can I draw from the discard pile?
- What happens when the Train Car deck runs out?
- What can I do on my turn in Nordic Countries?
Claiming Routes and Locomotives
- Can locomotives be used as wilds on regular routes (including gray ones) in Nordic Countries?
- How does the 9-space Murmansk-Lieksa route work, and can locomotives be used?
- Does claiming Murmansk-Lieksa end the game?
- In a two-player game, can I claim both routes of a double route?
- What counts as a double route: any two routes between the same cities, or only parallel routes of the same length?
- Are Stavanger-Kristiansand and Mo i Rana-Trondheim double routes?
Ferries
- Can any three cards replace a locomotive symbol on a ferry route?
- Can three cards of any color pay for a colored (non-locomotive) space on a ferry?
- Can I use a locomotive on a colored ferry space and three cards on its locomotive space at once?
- Can I use more locomotives on a ferry than its locomotive symbols require?
- Can three cards stand in for a locomotive when building a tunnel?
Tunnels
- What do I pay when I claim a tunnel and matching cards are revealed?
- What happens if I cannot or will not pay the extra tunnel cards?
- If I claim a tunnel using only locomotives, which revealed cards trigger extra payment?
- Can I mix locomotives and colored cards to claim a tunnel, and pay extras with locomotives?
Destination Tickets and Scoring
Game End and Ties
Ticket to Ride Map Collection 2: India & SwitzerlandExpansion
- On the Switzerland map, can a ticket to a city be completed by running through a country space?
- How many points is the Mandala bonus worth on the India map?
- What counts as a Mandala on the India map?
- Do the India or Switzerland maps use the Globetrotter bonus?
- How are Switzerland tickets with several destinations scored?
- On Switzerland, if I hold duplicate country-to-country tickets, do both score?
- Can locomotives be used on regular routes in Switzerland?
- How do locomotives work on India?
- What is the tiebreaker on India and Switzerland?
- How many trains per color does Switzerland use?
Ticket to Ride: Alvin & DexterExpansion
- Can stations, depots or passengers be used in a city with a Monster?
- Can a Monster move into a city containing my Station, Depot or Passenger?
- If a Monster is in a Country space, which cities are in Chaos?
- What happens to Depots and Stations in a city in Chaos?
- Can a Destination Ticket be halved twice by Monsters?
- Does a ticket count as including a city in Chaos if the route merely passes through it?
- When I play a locomotive to move a Monster, must it leave its city?
- Can a 4+ Locomotive from the Marklin map move a Monster?
- Can I use a wild card I just drew to move a Monster?
- Can I draw a Monster card while that Monster's card is face up?
- If players tie for the most cards of one Monster, do all get the bonus?
- Can I check how many Monster cards others hold?
Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912Expansion
- Which tickets do you use in the Big Cities of Europe variant?
- Which tickets does the Europe Expanded variant use?
- Which destination tickets are used in Mega Europe and how are they dealt?
- Can Europa 1912 tickets be used with other maps?
- Do I discard a depot to collect warehouse cards, even my own?
- Is placing depots a free action I can take in the same turn as my regular action?
- How many train cards go into warehouses when I draw cards?
- Must I connect a new route to a depot's city on the same turn to take its cards?
- Can a station and a depot share a city, and do stations collect warehouse cards?
- Can I place a depot in a city whose routes are all claimed?
- Can I place more than one depot at once?
- Does Europa 1912 include a longest route bonus card?