Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

Turn choices: Starting with the caboose card holder and proceeding clockwise, take exactly one action on your turn: draw train cards, claim one route, or draw tickets. Claiming a route does not score by length as in standard Ticket to Ride; resolve company rewards and the rules currently in effect.

Cards and newspapers: Normally draw two cards from the five face-up cards or the top of the deck. A face-up locomotive must be your first draw and ends your drawing action; a locomotive drawn blind counts as only one card. Whenever a newspaper is drawn, reveal the next event immediately, discard the newspaper, and draw a replacement train card.

Claiming routes: Pay a set matching the route’s length and colour. Locomotives are wild, and a grey route accepts a set of any one colour. Fill the whole route in that turn; construction cannot be split across turns. The route need not connect to your existing network, but it must have a city at both ends.

Parallel routes and rewards: A player may not claim two routes in the same double or triple route. With two or three players, only one route of a double route is available, while all three routes of a triple route remain available. Claiming a route in your company colour grants its company reward. A newly claimed route touching at least one large city draws one train card from the deck, even if both ends are large cities.

Ticket commitments: A draw-tickets action normally draws three tickets, of which you must keep at least one; return the others to the bottom of the ticket deck. A ticket you keep cannot be returned during a later draw. At game end, a continuous path of your own trains between its cities earns its dollar value; an incomplete ticket loses that amount.

Ending a game: If a player ends their turn with zero, one, or two trains remaining, everyone, including that player, takes one final turn. Add cash, the remaining-trains bonus, and net ticket value, with the bank slip total never below zero. Most dollars wins; ties favour more completed tickets, then the player who acted later in that game’s turn order.

Keeping the campaign: After scoring, complete the required steps such as retiring an event and checking the paused story card before putting your bank slip into your company vault. Vault contents stay there until the twelve-game campaign ends and cannot be spent as next game’s cash. Add later rules only when your copy’s instructions tell you to.