Ticket to Ride: Europe rules

Claim European train routes with tunnels, ferries, and train stations.

Players: 2–5
Time: 30–60 min
Ages: 8+
Goal: Claim train routes across Europe to connect cities and complete your secret Destination Tickets, including a Long Ticket if you keep one. Most points at game end wins.

How to play Ticket to Ride: Europe

Board: place the board in the middle of the table.
Each player takes 45 trains and 3 Train Stations in one colour (Brown, Red, Purple, Gray or Blue), and puts their scoring marker on Start (0) on the scoring track.
Train Car cards: shuffle them and deal 4 to each player. Put the rest face down next to the board as the draw deck, then turn its top 5 cards face up beside it.
Three Locomotives showing? If 3 of those 5 face-up cards are Locomotives, discard all 5 and turn up 5 new ones.
Bonus card: place the European Express bonus card face up next to the board.
Long Tickets: separate the 6 Long Destination Tickets from the 40 Regular ones. Shuffle the Long Tickets, deal 1 to each player, and return the rest to the box unseen.
Regular Tickets: shuffle them, deal 3 to each player, and put the rest face down next to the board as the ticket draw pile.
Choose tickets: from your 4 (1 Long + 3 Regular), keep at least 2. You may keep more, and you may discard the Long Ticket. Discarded tickets go back in the box, unseen.
Whoever's traveled to the most European countries goes first; play then passes clockwise.

Take exactly one of these 4 actions. You can't pass.

Draw Train Car cards: take 2, from the 5 face-up cards or the top of the deck. A face-up Locomotive has its own limit.
Claim a route: play cards matching its colour, one per space, then place your trains and score it straight away.
Draw Destination Tickets: draw 3 Regular Tickets and keep at least 1.
Build a Train Station on any city without one, for 1 card, then 2, then 3 of one colour.

Gray routes take a set of any one colour.
Locomotives are wild in any set.
Ferries need a Locomotive card for each Locomotive icon.
Tunnels: flip 3 cards from the deck and pay 1 extra card per match, or take your cards back.
Double routes: you can never claim both of a pair; with 2–3 players, the other one closes.

Route scoring: 1, 2, 4, 7, 15 or 21 points for a route of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 spaces, scored when you claim it.
Destination Ticket scoring: at game end, add a ticket's value if your routes connect its two cities, or subtract it if not.
Train Stations: each one you built lets you use one opponent's route into its city for your tickets. Each unused Station scores 4.
European Express: +10 at game end for the longest continuous chain of your trains.

Example: A 4-space route scores 7 at once. An unfinished 20-point Long Ticket costs 20 at game end.

Game end: once a player finishes a turn with 2 or fewer trains, everyone gets one last turn.
Final scoring: choose each Station's route, score your tickets and unused Stations, then the European Express.
Winner: most points. The tie-breaker is most tickets completed, then fewest Stations used, then whoever holds the European Express card.

Only needed if you play with the expansion named on each heading.

New tickets played through a variant, plus Warehouses & Depots.

Setup: choose a ticket variant. Europe Expanded: add the 19 new 1912 Regular tickets to the Regular tickets and deal as usual. Big Cities of Europe, Mega Europe or Europe 1912 (anniversary box): deal tickets as its card says instead of the Long and Regular steps.
Setup: with Warehouses & Depots, after tickets are kept each player takes a Warehouse and 5 Depots, keeps 4 Depots beside the Warehouse, and, starting with the last player and going counterclockwise, places the 5th Depot in any city.
Warehouses & Depots: feed a card into a Warehouse before drawing; spend a Depot to empty a Warehouse when you claim into a Depot city; 10 points for the most unused Depots.

Setup: before dealing, shuffle any of the 7 bonus tickets (Orient Express, Max) into the Regular tickets (or the variant's ticket deck).