Ticket to Ride: The Card Game - Tips & Strategies

As a two-player game, Ticket to Ride: the Card Game feels just too random. This was exacerbated by one particular rule that we did not like. In the boardgame, when three or more Locomotive cards appear face up in the Draw Area, all five face up cards are discarded and redrawn.

In the card game, this is not case and in one game, we ended up with five Locomotive cards face up in the Draw Area. If one player took one of these, it probably would have revealed an ordinary colored Train card and so given the next player a choice (and thus an advantage) in what cards he could take in his turn. For us, we were stuck drawing cards blind from the draw deck, and we felt that the rest of the draw deck could have just been dealt between the two of us and the game ended there and then. This was one rule that we changed for subsequent play, incorporating the rule about face up Locomotive Cards in the Ticket to Ride board game.

When we play this game, we remove the annoying need to remember what you have played. At any time, you can look through your cards to see what you have already played. This helps the game significantly and makes it more accesible to younger players as well.