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Classic	1910	Big Cities	Mega	From	To	Points*
✅		✅	✅	Boston	Miami	12
	✅		✅	Calgary	Nashville	14
✅			✅	Calgary	Phoenix	13
✅			✅	Calgary	Salt Lake City	7
	✅	✅	✅	Chicago	Atlanta	5
	✅	✅	✅	Chicago	Boston	7
✅		✅	✅	Chicago	New Orleans	7
	✅	✅	✅	Chicago	New York	5
✅		✅	✅	Chicago	Santa Fe	9
✅		✅	✅	Dallas	New York	11
✅			✅	Denver	El Paso	4
✅			✅	Denver	Pittsburgh	11
	✅		✅	Denver	Saint Louis	6
	✅	✅	✅	Duluth	Dallas	7
✅			✅	Duluth	El Paso	10
✅		✅	✅	Duluth	Houston	8
✅		✅	✅	Helena	Los Angeles	8
	✅	✅	✅	Houston	Washington	10
	✅		✅	Kansas City	Boston	11
✅		✅	✅	Kansas City	Houston	5
	✅	✅	✅	Las Vegas	Miami	21
	✅	✅	✅	Los Angeles	Atlanta	15
	✅	✅	✅	Los Angeles	Calgary	12
✅		✅	✅	Los Angeles	Chicago	16
✅		✅	✅	Los Angeles	Miami	20 ⇨ 19
✅		✅	✅	Los Angeles	New York	21 ⇨ 20
	✅	✅	✅	Los Angeles	Oklahoma City	9
✅			✅	Montréal	Atlanta	9
	✅	✅	✅	Montréal	Dallas	13
✅			✅	Montréal	New Orleans	13
	✅		✅	Montréal	Raleigh	7
	✅	✅	✅	Nashville	New York	6
✅		✅	✅	New York	Atlanta	6
	✅	✅	✅	New York	Miami	10
	✅		✅	Omaha	New Orleans	8
	✅	✅	✅	Portland	Houston	16
✅			✅	Portland	Nashville	17
✅			✅	Portland	Phoenix	11
	✅		✅	Portland	Pittsburgh	19
	✅	✅	✅	Saint Louis	Miami	8
	✅	✅	✅	Salt Lake City	Chicago	11
	✅		✅	Salt Lake City	Kansas City	7
✅			✅	San Francisco	Atlanta	17
	✅		✅	San Francisco	Sault St. Marie	17
	✅		✅	San Francisco	Washington	21
	✅	✅	✅	Sault St. Marie	Miami	12
✅			✅	Sault St. Marie	Nashville	8
✅			✅	Sault St. Marie	Oklahoma City	9 ⇨ 8
	✅	✅	✅	Seattle	Las Vegas	10
✅		✅	✅	Seattle	Los Angeles	9
✅		✅	✅	Seattle	New York	22 ⇨ 20
	✅	✅	✅	Seattle	Oklahoma City	14
	✅		✅	Toronto	Charleston	6
✅		✅	✅	Toronto	Miami	10
	✅		✅	Vancouver	Denver	11
	✅		✅	Vancouver	Duluth	13
	✅		✅	Vancouver	Montréal	20
✅			✅	Vancouver	Santa Fe	13
	✅		✅	Washington	Atlanta	4
✅		✅	✅	Winnipeg	Houston	12
✅			✅	Winnipeg	Little Rock	11
	✅		✅	Winnipeg	Santa Fe	10
			✅	Boston	Washington	4
		✅	✅	Montréal	Chicago	7
			✅	Vancouver	Portland	2
			✅	Winnipeg	Omaha	6
30	35	34	69	27	30	Mega 754

*changed for Mega

Destination Tickets

• - Destination tickets with nearby cities need fewer train cars
• - Tickets can be risky! Be sure you can complete your tickets with your remaining car pieces before taking more.

Train Car Cards

• - You can use locomotives to to replace any color (e.g. a 6-car route can be completed only 5 matching cards and one locomotive)
• - Draw face-down train car cards to draw up to two multi-color cards per turn
• - Avoid face-up multi-color unless it's an emergency or you would hold more cards than your remaining car pieces

Train Car Pieces

You only play 45 train cars.

For reference, Vancouver to Los Angeles to Miami to Montreal is 42 trains if you hit the absolutely most efficient route. (It is 43 trains by the Northern route.) Any detour that makes the train more than 3 cars longer and the whole route is impossible.

• - Claim longer routes to gain more points per car

Choose your timing wisely

• - Without opponents, you would first draw 45 train car cards of the colors you want and only then play your 45 cars.
• - With opponents, some of the routes you want will be claimed before you can claim them, so you need to balance claiming routes early with using cards efficiently.
  • - Claim routes too late, and your opponent may claim critical routes that block you (or worse, end the game before you can play your cars!)

Competition

Other than maximising your points, you can also limit your opponent's ability to collect points by:

Ending the game quickly

• - The last round is triggered when any player has two or fewer train car pieces remaining.
• - Play more cars per turn by claiming longer routes.

Claiming routes to 'block' your opponent

• - Claiming routes early may allow you to claim your preferred routes, leaving your opponent to take inconvenient detours.
• - To avoid being blocked yourself, identify critical choke points in your route, and claim them early.
  • -- N.B. Some players, as in any other game, consider deliberate blocking - when you take a segment that interferes with your opponent without actually helping you - to be unsporting, but it can be considered a crucial strategy in a competitive format.

Drawing train car cards of a color that you opponent needs

• - Where an opponent is collecting cards of a certain color (for example for a 6-length route), or there is a gap in their route of a certain color, you can draw that color so that your opponent has to:
• - Use more turns to draw the cards they need.
• - Use any multi-color cards they hold.
• - Make it harder for them to complete their routes.

In higher level games, the typical strategy is to draw a lot of face-down cards to collect as many multi-color as possible and complete as many long routes as you can to connect your destinations and claim the longest route bonus. With this strategy it is often possible to win with only 2 low scoring tickets.

Board facts

• Each color has 27 spaces.
• Each color has one 6 route.
• 6/8 colors have one 5, two 4, two 3 and one 2.
• White and green have an extra 5 and 2 and one less 4 and 3.

27 spaces per color

White and Green	Black, Orange, Red, Yellow, Purple and Blue
🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 6 🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 5 🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 5 🚃🚃🚃🚃 4 🚃🚃🚃 3 🚃🚃 2 🚃🚃 2	6 🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 5 🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 4 🚃🚃🚃🚃 4 🚃🚃🚃🚃 3 🚃🚃🚃 3 🚃🚃🚃 2 🚃🚃