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Ticket to Ride Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Ticket to Ride? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

You can score negative points in Ticket to Ride if you fail to complete a destination ticket.

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Easy
✓ TRUE

Unfinished destination tickets deduct their face value from your final score, potentially resulting in a negative total.

2.

Alan R. Moon designed Ticket to Ride to be a family-friendly alternative to complex train games.

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Easy
✓ TRUE

Moon wanted a simple, accessible game that still offered strategic depth, contrasting with heavier railroad simulations.

3.

The maximum number of train pieces you can place in a single turn is three.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

You can claim a route up to 6 cars long in one turn, placing all those trains at once. Three is just the limit for drawing cards.

4.

The longest route in the base game is a 6-car segment between Vancouver and Montreal.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

The longest single route is actually 6 cars from Los Angeles to New York, not Vancouver to Montreal.

5.

The original 2004 edition included a map of Europe, not the United States.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

The first edition was indeed the USA map. The Europe map came later as a standalone expansion in 2005.

6.

The 1910 expansion added larger cards and new destination tickets, but no new routes.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

The 1910 expansion replaced small cards with full-size ones, added 35 new tickets, and included a new 'Big Cities' variant—but no new track routes.

7.

In the USA map, there are only two double-route connections between major cities.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

There are actually several double routes, such as between Portland and Salt Lake City, and between Duluth and Winnipeg.

8.

Ticket to Ride was originally pitched as 'Railroad Tycoon: The Card Game' before being renamed.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

Days of Wonder tested the game under that working title, but changed it to avoid confusion with the video game series.

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