

If you choose too many tickets, you'll lose a lot of points at the end of the game for all your unfulfilled goals. In each turn, you choose between claiming a route, drawing more train cards, or drawing more ticket cards, having to balance your need to claim points, with your desire to set up a favorable position at the end of the game. To actually put down trains, you need to have cards of various colors that match the differently-colored routes across the gameboard. There's also a final extra point bonus for the person who manages to create the longest continuous line of train cars, fulfilling the narrative idea set out by the game's premise. You gain ticket cards that give you specific route goals in exchange for points at the end of the game, but lose points if you haven't managed to complete any of these goals.

Your main goal in Ticket to Ride is to end the game with the most points, and you accrue points by placing your color of train cars between different cities. As with most Days of Glory games, along with your other components you also receive a catalogue to flick through of their other published works. The challenge this year is to see who can visit the most cities in America in only 7 days, and only by using the rails, and thus does the adventure begin. Each year these expeditions have gotten bigger and had higher and higher wages, and now in its 27th iteration, the wager is for $1 million dollars. Inspired by the action of Phileas Fogg, you and several of your friends have a yearly gamble on the anniversary of Fogg's adventure. The story of Ticket to Ride is set in the universe of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days.
