Ticket to Ride: Switzerland - Tips & Strategies

A neat aspect in Ticket to Ride is the country to country routes where you have lots of different options about what you even want to do. You could go from France to Italy, or over to Germany, its up to you. And these new routes provide new strategy as well.

Its true there are not very many long routes in Switzerland, but using the country to country cards help with this matter. Make sure that you are not taking the easy way out and going to those short routes. Make your away across to new countries and you’ll get those big points and most likely the longest route.

They can also provide a quit out for you as well as there is a route that can be accomplished in just a few turns. This can help with a bad route draw. Also, since you only have to take the lowest points, its not that bad to simply lose five points for not accomplishing it as strategic move to go for something more.

The key to this game is to continuosly garb route cards. Because the Country map is so easy to navigate and there are so many duplicates to the route cards, it is imperative to continuously load up on route cards. Route cards are not cycled back into the deck. When they are drawn, they’re gone. Better in your hands than your opponents!

As Ticket To Ride: Switzerland introduces some route cards that are country to country, and that there are duplicates of these routes, we generally only allow a route to only score once in one-direction.
For example, say you draw 2 cards with France-Other Countries and 2 cards with Italy-Other Countries, we generally allow you to score for your route from Italy to France, and score for that same route from France to Italy. If you want points from the other Italy-France routes, you would need to find another part of that country and build a route for it to count.

As it says in the main description, this expansion requires a copy of Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe… but it is also compatible with Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries.