How do I use a wild card?

[Rooster6975]

I know this game extremely well, have played the physical game countless times.

So far the routes I have built in my first BGA game, I have had the correct coloured cards. Now I want to build a white card + wild to beat my opponent to it. No amount of clicking on the route lets me do that. I've tried pre-selecting my single white card, and pre-selecting a wild card, but I cannot get that route built. How do I use 2 cards to build a small route, one wild, and one white?

[thoun]

If you have not enough white cards, it will autocomplete with wild cards. You just have to let the game do it for you

[Rooster6975]

Thanks, I figured it out. The problem is that we were playing a 3-player game, which means the second line of the same route is not used. As soon as one route is taken, the other is auto-filled with Do Not Enter signs. As luck would have it, the line I wanted to take was only 2 segments long and was mostly hidden behind the trains of another player, so I couldn't see the Do Not Enter signs. We hadn't filled any other double-route yet, I had nothing else to compare it against. I kept clicking on the mostly-hidden line wanting to use one white card and one wild, but nothing happened.

As soon as another double-route was played, it became very clear.

[StvenC]

Thank you for posting this query! I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to claim a route because it never occurred to me that little black dots were supposed to mean the route couldn't be claimed in a 3-player game, and it was only when I came here that I got a clue.