Ticket to Ride: Märklin FAQ
176 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components and Game End
The Game Turn
- Does a Passenger collect the Merchandise token in its starting city?
- Does a Passenger take another Merchandise token when it passes through a city it already visited?
- Can a Passenger use the same route twice in one trip?
- Can a Passenger return to its starting city and collect that city's token?
- Does a Passenger keep moving through a city whose Merchandise token is gone?
- Does a Passenger waiting in a city stop another Passenger from collecting that city's token?
- Does a Passenger collect a token in its final destination city?
- Can you take a second card after drawing a Locomotive?
Train Car and Passenger Cards
- Can a Passenger travel along an opponent's route?
- Can a Passenger travel along track that no player has claimed?
- Does a Passenger trip have to start and end on your own colour?
- Do a mix of Passenger and Locomotive cards trigger the face-up refresh?
- Can you draw two face-up Passenger cards in one turn?
- Do +4 Locomotives count toward the three-Locomotive refresh of the face-up row?
Claiming Routes
- Where can you place a Passenger when you claim a route?
- Can you place a new Passenger after extending a route from a terminal city?
- Can two Passengers occupy the same city?
- In a 2 or 3 player game, can you claim both routes between the same two cities?
- Can a +4 Locomotive be used on a route of length 4?
- What counts as a route in Ticket to Ride: Märklin?
Drawing Destination Ticket Cards
Ticket to Ride Map Collection 2: India & SwitzerlandExpansion
- On the Switzerland map, can a route pass through a country spot to reach a second city?
- If one loop of routes serves several destination tickets, does each ticket count toward the Mandala bonus?
- What counts as a Mandala for a destination ticket?
- Do you get the Mandala bonus once per ticket or once per loop on the India map?
- Can the routes used for one ticket's Mandala also count toward another ticket's Mandala on the India map?
- Do the India or Switzerland maps use the Globetrotter bonus?
- Can the Nordic Countries train deck be used with the India & Switzerland map?
- How many trains does the Switzerland map use in each colour?
- On the Switzerland map, can you score two country-to-country tickets for the same pair of countries?
- On the Switzerland map, how many points does a ticket score when more than one of its routes or countries is complete?
- How do the special Switzerland location tickets score when you reach some but not all listed countries?
- On the India map, do locomotives work as in the base game?
- How are tunnel cave-in penalties matched when claiming a Switzerland single-blue tunnel with a locomotive?
Ticket to Ride Map Collection 4: NederlandExpansion
- How are places and bonus points split when players tie on tokens on the Netherlands map?
- On the Netherlands map, does a player with a Loan still take a place in the token bonus ranking?
- Can a player with no Bridge Toll tokens left still score a token bonus on the Netherlands map?
- On the Netherlands map, when does the neutral player marker stay with the player instead of passing?
- When does the Neutral player stop in Nederland?
- Does Nederland need a base game's map, train cards or starting hand?
- In Nederland's neutral player variant, which turn does the neutral player phase begin?
- In the Nederland two-player game, who chooses which of two vacant double routes the neutral player claims?
- What points does each player start with under the Nederland staggered start?
- On Nederland in a two-player game, which route does the neutral player claim for a ticket?
- On Nederland, does a tie for first place remove the second-place bonus?
- How is the second route on a Nederland route card used?
- Do you get Bridge Toll tokens when you take a loan card in Nederland?
Ticket to Ride Map Collection 8: Iberia & South KoreaExpansion
- In Ticket to Ride: Iberia, does the rule about the Wagon cards running out refer to the train cards?
- How are destination tickets drafted at the start of a Ticket to Ride: Iberia game?
- On the Iberia & South Korea map, where do unwanted destination tickets go during play?
- On the South Korea map, is placing a train on the province mat optional?
- On the South Korea map, when you place a train on the province mat, is it scored at route completion?
- Does an Express Train card count as an extra card toward a route in South Korea?
- On the South Korea map, is the province bonus scored per colour line or once overall?
- In South Korea, can you take festival cards from a city connected to your network but not by the route you just built?
- When you claim a route into a Festival City on the Iberia map, do you take all of its festival cards or only the top one?
Ticket to Ride Map Collection 5: United Kingdom & PennsylvaniaExpansion
- Can you buy a second copy of a technology card you already own?
- Can you buy more than one technology card in a single turn?
- Where are the technology cards kept during the game?
- Are all technology cards available from the start of the game?
- Do you spend technology cards to claim routes?
- Do technology cards go back to the pool after use, like Propellers or Diesel Power?
- When you use Right of Way to claim a route that is already claimed, do you still need the correct cards?
- Can Right of Way add a third line to a double route that two players already claimed?
- With Right of Way in a 2-player game, can you claim the second track of a double route after the other track is taken?
- With Right of Way on a double route, which colour do you use?
- Can Right of Way be used more than once by the same player, or on the same route?
- Do trains placed with Right of Way count toward the longest continuous route?
- Does Diesel Power let you claim a route with one card fewer, for example two Locomotives on a three-space route?
- On the Southampton to New York route, does Diesel Power let you use fewer locomotives?
- With Booster, can six train cards be exchanged for two Locomotives on the UK map?
- What does Thermocompressor do on the UK map, and must you use it in the turn you buy it?
- With Water Tenders, must you declare the three blind draws before your first draw?
- If two players tie for the most completed tickets, do both get the Risky Contracts bonus?
- Does the Equalising Beam bonus go to the longest continuous path or to the single longest route?
- Does the Superheated Steam Boiler need the Mechanical Stoker, to buy it or to claim 4-6 space routes?
- Do Boiler Lagging and Steam Turbines pay only for routes built after you buy them?
- Do you need Propellers to claim a ferry route, and does it remove the locomotive requirement?
- Do ferry routes also need the technology for their length on the UK map?
- Is the Bristol to Cardiff route on the UK map a ferry route?
- Can you use locomotive cards to pay for the grey sections of a ferry route?
- Can four cards be played as a Locomotive to claim a ferry route on the UK map?
- On the UK map, can any four cards be used in place of a Locomotive?
- Are locomotive cards wild on the UK and Pennsylvania maps?
- Can any four cards stand in for a Locomotive in Pennsylvania?
- On the UK map, can you take more than one face-up Wild card in a single turn?
- On the UK map, are the extra Locomotive cards shuffled into the train deck?
- On the UK map, is the draw deck reshuffled when it runs out, or when a player needs to draw?
- On the UK map, does the game end when a player has two or fewer trains left?
- On the UK map, are routes scored when they are built or when tickets are completed?
- In Ticket to Ride Map Collection 5: UK & Pennsylvania, where do destination tickets that a player rejects go?
- On the UK map, does taking new destination tickets end your turn?
- Does the UK map have a longest route bonus?
- Do Stations get used on the UK or Pennsylvania maps, or can you use Stations from Ticket to Ride: Europe?
- Do you need a route already connected to your network before building in a concession area like Ireland or Wales?
- Does the Scotland concession also let you build in Ireland on the UK map?
- Do you need to connect to both France locations to complete a route to France on the UK map?
- What do the trackbed and spanner icons on UK ticket cards mean?
- Do the base game rules still apply on a map pack unless the map's rules change them?
- Which base game parts do you need to play the UK map?
- How many trains does each player use in Pennsylvania compared with the UK map?
- Can you play Pennsylvania with the full UK train deck, or use the UK deck in a classic game by removing six Locomotives?
- Can Pennsylvania or the UK map be played with five players?
- Can Europa 1912 warehouses be used with the Pennsylvania or UK map?
- Does Pennsylvania use the Longest Route bonus as well as the Globetrotter bonus?
- How many points is the 7-space route worth on the Pennsylvania map?
- In Pennsylvania, do you still score points for each route you build, and are completed routes scored at game end?
- Does Pennsylvania have a scoring track or a scoring chart?
- In Pennsylvania, do you still skip double routes in 2- or 3-player games?
- Can both tracks of a double route be used in a 3-player UK game?
- On a double route, does the second player who claims the other track still get a stock share?
- If more players hold shares in a railroad than it has scoring places, do the extra shareholders score?
- In Pennsylvania, how is a tie for shares in a railroad broken, and does losing it cost you points?
- In Pennsylvania, if one player owns every share of a railroad, what do they score?
- In Pennsylvania's 2-player game, how do you score the dummy player's shares at game end?
- In a 2-player Pennsylvania game, can the dummy player get the same stock you just took?
- Do the two Ontario ferry links on the Pennsylvania map connect Erie to Buffalo through Ontario?
- On the Pennsylvania map, does a ticket to Ontario need connections to both Ontario spots?
- Does the Southampton to New York route need any Technology card to claim?
- On the Southampton to New York route, do the non-Locomotive cards have to be one colour?
Ticket to Ride: Alvin & DexterExpansion
- Can you play locomotives to move Alvin or Dexter but leave the monster in the same city?
- Do the four-or-more locomotive cards count as locomotives for moving Alvin or Dexter?
- Can a Station or Depot be built in a city where a monster is?
- Can a passenger move into, out of, or through a city with a monster?
- Can a monster move into a city that has your Station, Depot, or a Passenger?
- If a monster sits on a country space, what is put into Chaos?
- Can cards be added to or taken from a Depot in a city that is in Chaos?
- Can a Station in a city in Chaos still be used at the end of the game?
- If both monsters sit on a ticket's two cities, or both sit in one of them at game end, is the ticket halved twice?
- Is a ticket halved for a City in Chaos that lies only on the path between the ticket's two cities?
- In Alvin & Dexter, can you draw cards and also move a monster in the same turn?
- In Alvin & Dexter, can you use a Wild you just drew to move a monster?
- Can you draw a monster card while that monster's card is face up in Alvin & Dexter?
- Can a monster leave Switzerland and come back in through a different border?
- Do all cities in a country go into Chaos when a monster sits in just one of its cities?
- If two or more players tie for the most monster cards, do they all score the bonus?
- Can you ask how many monster cards are left, or how many each player holds, in Alvin & Dexter?
- Can a player take both an Alvin card and a Dexter card in one turn?
Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912Expansion
- Do Europa 1912 destination ticket points always equal the shortest route length?
- Is the Bucuresti to Erzurum ticket worth 7 points when its shortest route is 8 train cars?
- How do you set up the Europe Expanded variant in Europa 1912?
- Which destination tickets are used in the Mega Europe variant of Europa 1912?
- How are destination tickets dealt and kept in the Mega Europe variant?
- Which destination tickets are used in the Big Cities of Europe variant?
- Are stations legal to use in the Europa 1912 Big Cities variant?
- Can the Europa 1912 cards and Warehouses & Depots be used with other Ticket to Ride maps?
- Can a train station and a depot share the same city in Europa 1912?
- Can a depot be placed in a city where all of its routes are already claimed?
- Do you have to discard a depot to take train cards from your own warehouse in Europa 1912?
- Can you place a depot as a free action and then collect your own warehouse cards in the same turn?
- How many cards go into a warehouse when you draw train cards in Europa 1912?
- Can you place more than one depot at once with the warehouse free action in Europa 1912?
- In Europa 1912, can you take a depot's warehouse cards on a later turn instead of the turn you claim into that depot?
- In Europa 1912, can one route take cards from two warehouses in a single turn?
- In Europa 1912, can you claim a route into another player's depot and take its warehouse cards?
- If you have two depots for one warehouse, which depot can you use to take its cards, and do depots ever leave the board?
- In Europa 1912, can you empty a depot in a city where you already own a line from an earlier turn?
- Does claiming a single route into a city with your depot let you take the warehouse cards if the route is not on a destination ticket?
- Can you take a depot's warehouse cards by claiming a route with a station?
- Does Europa 1912 include a Longest Route bonus card?
- In Mega Europe, do you use the USA 1910 bonuses for most tickets and the longest route?
- In Mega Europe, are the initial tickets chosen from the two long routes first, or from all seven together?
- In Europa 1912, are Big Cities a category from the base game?
Ticket to Ride: The Dice ExpansionExpansion
- Can you spend unused train dice on a route token before rolling the tunnel dice in the Dice Expansion?
- With the Dice Expansion on Nordic Countries, is the 9-space route used?
- With the Dice Expansion on Nordic Countries or Switzerland, can locomotive dice be used on any route?
- With the Dice Expansion, is the token limit three in total or three of each type?
- How many tokens do you get for unused dice in the Dice Expansion?
- Can one player claim both sides of a double route in the Dice Expansion?
- Do you start a Dice Expansion game with Destination Tickets?
- Can you use a token bought with two dice straight away with your other dice?