To play the game you'll need some components from another full Ticket to Ride game (like USA or Europe). Necessary game pieces:

• A deck of 110 train color cards
• 45 plastic trains per player
• One scoring marker per player

You will also need these Philly-specific components (see How to Print):

• One game board
• 40 ticket cards

Differences

Most of the Philly game rules mirror those of the original game. View the original rules here while noting these differences:

• There is no longest route bonus at the end of the game.
• There are additional turn actions and end-of-game events, seen below.
• Optional "house rule": If you pick a face-up card and it is replaced by a locomotive (wild) card, you may take the locomotive as your second card. (In the official rules you must pick a different card.)

Sites

The Ticket to Ride Philly board has 20 "Sites of Interest". Each is a real place in Philadelphia (hover overtap any site in the online board for more info), and each is connected to a nearby station with a dashed line.

Claiming a Site: On your turn you may choose to claim a site as an alternative to the other action options. Claiming a site will be your only action for that turn. A site is eligible to claim when:

• You have claimed one of the route connections to that site's station
• There is no train on the site's train space
• You have cards of both colors shown on the site's train space, and a train to place on it

If all criteria are met, you can play your two color cards and place one train on the site's train space to claim it. Here's an example of claiming the "Central High School" site, using a red and a yellow card and one train:

Points for claiming a site will be granted not on your turn, but at the end of the game — if you've connected its station to a completed ticket (see Scoring).

Inset: The sites in Center City are shown on the inset map, located in the bottom right of the board. Each station on the inset corresponds to a station on the game map — 30th St, City Hall, and Old City.

Claiming a site in the inset follows the same site rules — you must first have claimed a route connecting to the site's corresponding station on the main map.

Since there are two sites per station in the inset, two players could each claim a site connected to the same station.

Scoring: At the end of the game, all players calculate their site bonus and add it to their score. A site you have claimed is eligible to be scored when its station is connected to a route of any of your completed tickets. To score, count your eligible sites and use the scoring table (shown here, and at the bottom left of the board) to find your point bonus — 6 points for the first site, an additional 7 for the next, then 8, 9, etc.

Note: In our trial games these values seemed to give a good balance between claiming sites and completing tickets. If in your games they seem too high or too low you're welcome to experiment with different values; we'd be glad to hear what seems balanced for you.
 

Transit modes

Each route on the Ticket to Ride Philly board has a small circled letter on one of its train spaces, located near the center of the route. The letter tells which mode of public transportation that route uses in real life. (Hover overTap any route in the online board for more info.)

There are five modes in the game:

• B - Bus
• N - Norristown "High Speed" Metro line
• R - Regional rail
• S - Subway
• T - Trolley

Mode Bonus: At the end of the game all players who have claimed a route in each of the five modes may add a 10 point bonus to their score, as long as each route is connected to a completed ticket. We recommend keeping a notecard to cross off each mode as you claim it, to easily keep track for the end of the game.

Note that there are only four N routes and five T routes — good to keep in mind if you want the bonus. (The N routes are between Norristown and 69th St; the T routes are between Brewerytown and Fishtown and between 69th St and Sharon Hill.)
 

Bridge

The route from North Philly to Bridesburg is shown on the board with a dotted line, where it crosses under the route from Somerset to Frankford without connecting (aerial view). It's a regular 5-train route, as shown here:

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That's it, enjoy your trip around Philly!