Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails

1 Overview

Ticket to Ride Rails & Sails is a standalone game combining two modes of transport: trains on land and ships at sea. You manage two separate card hands, train cards and ship cards, and claim routes of both types across your chosen map.

2 Setup

Choose a map (World or Great Lakes). Each player receives a starting set of train cars and ships, a player board, and draws an initial hand of both train cards and ship cards. Draw destination tickets (min 2 must be kept).

Two separate face-up card rows are in the center: one for train cards (5 face-up + deck), one for ship cards (5 face-up + deck).

3 Trains vs. Ships

Train cards are used to claim land routes. Ship cards claim sea routes. The card types are completely separate, train cards cannot be used for sea routes and vice versa.

Each turn, when drawing cards, you draw up to 2 cards total from either deck (train or ship) in any combination. Drawing a face-up locomotive from either deck counts as 2 cards.

4 Claiming Routes

Spend matching cards to claim routes. Land routes use train cards and train cars. Sea routes use ship cards and ship tokens. Some routes span both land and sea, these require both train and ship cards of the same color.

Route scoring follows the standard Ticket to Ride length-to-points scale.

5 Harbors

Harbors are a new scoring element. Each map has harbor spaces. At game end, count how many harbors are connected to your network. Score bonus points based on your completed destination tickets and harbor count (chart varies by map).

6 Scoring

• Routes: standard length-based points
• Completed destination tickets: +face value
• Failed destination tickets: −face value
• Longest continuous route: +10 points (World map only)
• Harbors: variable bonus based on completed tickets

7 The Two Maps

World Map

Covers all continents. 2–5 players. Longer game (90–120 min). Includes Longest Route bonus. The most complex and varied map in the box.

Great Lakes Map

North America only, focused on the Great Lakes region. 2–4 players. Faster (45–75 min). No Longest Route bonus. Tighter and more competitive than the World map.