Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails expands the classic Ticket to Ride experience across both land and water, offering a thrilling blend of train and ship route building for fans of strategy and adventure. Players collect coloured cards to claim routes connecting cities across the globe, using both train and ship tokens to navigate rectangular and oval spaces on the double-sided game board. With one side depicting the entire world and the other focused on the Great Lakes of North America, each map offers unique challenges and strategic opportunities.
 
In Rails & Sails, players start with destination tickets showing cities or multi-city tour routes, aiming to create continuous networks to score points while avoiding penalties for incomplete routes. The game introduces split card decks for trains and ships, with wild cards reserved for trains, and provides opportunities to swap train tokens for ships to adapt your strategy mid-game. Strategic harbor placement adds another layer of depth: players discard matching train and ship cards to place harbors in port cities, earning significant points if incorporated into completed routes.
 
Gameplay balances classic Ticket to Ride mechanics with innovative twists, rewarding careful planning, route optimization and tactical use of both trains and ships. When a player has six or fewer tokens remaining, the final turns begin and the winner is the player with the most points from completed tickets, tour routes and harbors. Rails & Sails supports multiple players, making it perfect for family game nights, competitive board game sessions or introducing new players to the excitement of Ticket to Ride.
 
With Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails, the adventure spans continents and oceans, combining familiar strategy with new challenges, endless replayability and the thrill of planning the ultimate rail and sea network.