After god only knows how many times of playing Ticket to Ride, I finally managed to pull off a win last night. And WHAT a win.

We were playing the Marklin edition (Germany), and I kept 3 of my first 4 destination cards (2 long routes, 1 short). At first glance it didn’t seem like they had any relation to one another, but with a bit of creative thinking (and collecting a ton of train cards before I started claiming routes) I managed to string together a fairly impressive route on the right side of the board. I got two of the 7-car routes, and while everyone kept questioning what I was trying to do when I only had a single 2 car train on the board, I stuck to the plan. I did a second destination card pull with 4 train cars left in front of me (everyone else had quite a few, so I was confident I’d be able to do something with at least one of them), and that was really the margin of victory.

In the end, I completed three long destination cards (worth 16, 18 and 22 points), as well as one of the shorter ones (for 8). If I hadn’t made the final pull for destination cards on my second last turn the game would have been a lot closer, but I had 132, the two next closest were 105 and 104, and then 73 and 69 to round out the scores. This was without passengers (which further inflate the scores in this version), and perhaps the main reason I was able to do this successfully was because I wasn’t playing with people who make it their sole goal to f with my plans.

you know who you people are..