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Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

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Published
2023
Reach
Widely known
Players
2–5
Play time
20–90 min
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How it plays

Complete destination tickets by claiming rail routes, while earning money and adapting to rules introduced during the 12-game campaign. On your turn, draw train cards, spend matching sets to claim a route, or take new tickets, with additional actions unlocked as the story develops. Each game ends when a player runs low on trains; completed tickets and other bonuses add earnings to your vault, which determines the campaign winner.

Main mechanics

  • Route building
  • Trading & negotiation
  • Hand management
  • Legacy & campaign
  • Tile laying
  • Drafting
  • Dice rolling
  • Set collection
  • Route building: You connect points on a map and defend the connection.
  • Trading & negotiation: Deals between players move the game forward.
  • Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
  • Legacy & campaign: The game changes permanently between sessions.
Full publisher description

In Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West , players embark on twelve journeys across North America as 19th century pioneers. The campaign begins on the East Coast, with players working their way to the West from one adventure to the next, meeting challenges along the way. As in Ticket to Ride , completing your tickets will remain your primary goal, but you will need to develop other skills if you hope to overcome the unexpected events and your resourceful rivals. Game after game, route after route, you will continuously fill your vault with earnings. As the story progresses, you will open frontier boxes that unlock new rules, content, and many more surprises. In the Legacy style, Legends of the West is a unique experience molded by player choices. Each player has their own role to play, allowing them to change the way the story unfolds around them. Combined with evolving mechanisms that change as the game progresses, players will have a new experience every time they gather around the board. At the end of the twelve games in this legacy campaign, you will have transformed your game into a unique copy that you can continue playing for a lifetime.. description from the publisher

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