User Manual

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Shuffle the Destination Ticket cards and deal two to each player
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.
Each player must look at their Destination Ticket cards and decide which
ones they wish to keep. Each player must keep one card, but may keep
both. If they choose to keep only one, the returned card is placed on the
bottom of the Destination Ticket deck. Then place this deck next to the
board
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. Players must keep their Destination Ticket cards secret until
the end of the game.
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You are now ready to begin.
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Place the board map in the center of the table. Each player takes a
set of coloured plastic Buses along with its matching Scoring Marker and
places this Scoring Marker on Start
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.
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Shuffle the Transportation cards and deal a starting hand of two cards
to each player
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. Place the remaining deck of Transportation cards near
the board and flip the top five cards from the deck face up
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. If by doing
so, three of the five face up cards are Bus cards, immediately discard all
five cards and flip five new cards face up to replace them.
OBJECT
OF THE
GAME
At the end of the game, the player who scored the most points wins. You
score points by:
You also lose points for each of your Destination Ticket cards you do
not complete by the end of the game.
THE
GAME TURN
Starting with the youngest player and proceeding in clockwise order,
players take turns until the game ends. On your turn, you must do one
(and only one) of the following three actions: draw Transportation
cards, claim a Route, or draw Destination Ticket cards.
SETUP
T
he hypnotic beat of rock music spills into the London streets along with young
people dressed as smart as you please. Your bus navigates through the city, headed
to the next destination but you wonder about getting o; touring the city on a double-
decker bus is smashing!
◗ 1 board map of London transportation network
◗ 68 plastic Buses (17 in each colour)
◗ A few spare plastic Buses
◗ 44 Transportation cards
(8 multi-coloured Bus cards and 6 cards of each following
colour: blue, green, black, pink, yellow, orange)
◗ 20 Destination Ticket cards
◗ 4 Scoring Markers
◗ This rule leaet
IN THE BOX
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Claiming a Route between two adjacent Locations on the board;
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Successfully completing a Continuous Path of Routes between
the two Locations listed on your Destination Ticket(s);
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Completing Districts by connecting all its composing Locations.
Draw Transportation cards
Transportation cards match the Route colours
on the board (green, black, orange, pink, yellow
and blue) except for Bus cards which are mul-
ticoloured and act as wild cards (they repre-
sent any colour when claiming a Route). You may have any number of
Transportation cards in your hand at any time.
This action allows you to draw two Transportation cards. You may take
the top card from the deck (a blind draw) or take any one of the ve
face up cards. In this case, immediately replace it with the top card
from the deck.
As an exception, if you take a face up Bus card as your rst card, you
cannot take another card on that turn. You cannot take a face up Bus
card as your second card either.
If, at any time, three of the ve face up cards are Bus cards, immedi-
ately discard all ve cards and ip ve new cards face up from the
deck to replace them.
When the deck is empty, shufe the discarded cards to create a new
Transportation cards deck.
Claim a Route
A Route is the set of spaces of the
same colour on the board that links
two adjacent Locations.
Some Locations are connected by
Double Routes (two Routes of the
same length connecting the same
Locations). A single player cannot
claim both Routes of a Double Route.
Note: In two-player games, once one Route of a Double Route is claimed,
the other one cannot be claimed by the other player.
To claim a Route, you must discard a number of cards from your hand
equal to the number of spaces in the Route and place a plastic Bus on
each of those spaces. Most Routes require a specic set of cards. For
example, a Blue Route must be claimed by discarding Blue Transpor-
tation cards. The grey Routes, on the other hand, can be claimed with
a set of cards of any one colour.