Ticket to Ride FAQ
67 questions players ask · Updated Nov 9, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components
- Can train car cards from one Ticket to Ride version be used with another?
- Can I play the base game on a separate USA board using the 1910 expansion's cards?
- Can India/Switzerland be played using the Nordic Countries base game, and for how many players?
- How many train car cards of each colour are in the base game?
Setting Up
- How many plastic trains does each player start with?
- Do I see my starting train cards before choosing which Destination Tickets to keep?
- Are the Destination Tickets sorted into long and short routes in the base game?
- How many Destination Tickets are dealt at setup in the Refresh Edition?
- Can I play the original game or the three 1910 versions using the 1910 box?
Taking a Turn
- Can I do more than one action on my turn?
- Can I pass or discard my hand when I cannot do what I want?
- Who goes first, and what does 'most experienced traveler' mean?
- Do players have to show how many train cards they hold?
- Do I have to show how many plastic trains I have left?
- On the final turn, can I still claim a route or draw cards?
Train Car Cards
- Can I draw both train cards blind from the deck?
- Can I take a face-up Locomotive as my second card?
- If I draw a Locomotive blind from the deck, do I still get a second card?
- What happens when three of the five face-up cards are Locomotives?
- If the face-up row is reset after I take my first card, do I still draw a second?
- Can I take two face-up cards at once when Locomotives are showing?
- Can I reshuffle the face-up row if all five cards are the same colour?
- Where do replacement face-up cards come from and where do spent cards go?
- When is the train car discard pile reshuffled into a new deck?
- If three face-up Locomotives appear as the deck runs out, do I reshuffle before or after clearing the display?
- Can I draw face-up cards when the deck and discard pile are both empty?
- What if the deck is so thin that the face-up row keeps showing three or more Locomotives?
- Is there a limit on how many train cards I can hold?
- Can a set of same-coloured cards act as a Locomotive?
Claiming Routes
- Can I claim a route using several Locomotives, or only Locomotives?
- Can a gray route be claimed with cards of different colours?
- Can I claim a route if I do not have enough trains left?
- Must a route I claim connect to my earlier routes or my tickets?
- Can I claim more than one route in a turn, such as a chain of cities?
- Is it legal to claim a route just to block another player?
- Can one player claim both tracks of a double route?
- Can both tracks of a double route be used in a 2 or 3 player game?
- Can a connection use either track of a double route?
- Can several players connect through the same city?
- Does the colour of my plastic trains matter when claiming a route?
- How many points is each route length worth?
- Should I score routes as I claim them or all at the end?
Destination Tickets
- Can I draw more Destination Tickets during the game?
- Do I have to draw more tickets once my current ones are done?
- Can I discard a Destination Ticket I already kept?
- Must I decide which drawn tickets to keep right away?
- Where do returned Destination Tickets go, and in what order?
- What happens when the Destination Ticket deck runs out?
- Do I reveal tickets during the game, even completed ones?
- Must a ticket be completed by the route printed on the card?
- Can another player's trains help complete my Destination Ticket?
- Can one route count towards several Destination Tickets?
Game End and Scoring
- When does the game end if a player is low on trains?
- Do unfinished Destination Tickets cost points, and how is the final score made?
- How is the Longest Continuous Path measured, and can it branch or loop?
- If two players tie for the longest path, do both get 10 points?
- How is a tie for most points broken?
- Do train cards left in hand count at the end?
- In 1910, do tied players all get the Globetrotter bonus?