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ExaltedAngel wrote: ↑19 December 2025, 03:59

Archisian wrote: ↑19 December 2025, 02:34 I really don't know what other strategies are there other than "Whoever has the Vancouver West-East/LA West-East routes wins" in vanilla Ticket to Ride. I don't think I have ever played a game of Ticket to Ride where a player with tickets beats a Vancouver W-E/LA W-E players unless it's the 1910 version that has more routes and gives bonuses to route completions.

If you are talking about 2p TTR, it's pretty much the opposite: vanilla TTR gives you chances to overcome the disadvantage in tickets, while the more objectives you add to the pool, the more having luck with tix is rewarded. If you are talking about 4-5p instead, I'm no expert, but generally whoever gets to play in a "free" area while the other players are competing for the same tracks gets an huge advantage, and this is why I don't enjoy multi as much as 2p. That, anyways, is not a matter of tix "stand alone strength", just of tix distribution and can apply to most if not all maps and setups of multiplayer TTR.

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=775733147
This is a game I played 2 days ago in which the player with Vancouver-Montreal (definitely the best of the "long tix") lost.
It's just the last I played and it came to my mind, but probably not the best example, since the game is pretty messy, iirc I played this from the phone while in bed and almost fucked up. Still it falls within what you were looking for. There are plenty of these examples anyways, I can even recall one game during 20th anniversary tournament in which someone won against his opponent who was holding "the golden 42" (Vancouver-Montreal 20 + Seattle-New York 22) which is the best pair of tix you can possibly have. Tickets are important, noone sane would ever deny that, but vanilla TTR is definitely one of the maps where the weight of luck is mitigated the most.

Archisian wrote: ↑19 December 2025, 05:08 I should definitely try it 2 player then. I usually played it 3+ and have just never liked it.