Ruling — Ticket to Ride: London

You asked

How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Ticket to Ride: Londonbg-276894-en-1e

Setup

1. Place the board map in the center of the table.[1]

2. Each player takes a set of coloured plastic Buses along with its matching Scoring Marker and places this Scoring Marker on Start ➊.[1]

3. Shuffle the Transportation cards and deal a starting hand of two cards to each player ➋.[1]

4. Place the remaining deck of Transportation cards near the board and flip the top five cards from the deck face up ➌.[1]

5. If 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.[1]

6. Shuffle the Destination Ticket cards and deal two to each player <0xE2><0x9E><0x8D>.[1]

7. Each player looks at their Destination Ticket cards and decides which ones to keep, keeping at least one and placing any returned cards on the bottom of the Destination Ticket deck ➎.[1]

8. Players must keep Destination Ticket cards secret until the end of the game.[1]

The Game Turn

1. Starting with the youngest player and proceeding in clockwise order, players take turns until the game ends.[1]

2. On your turn, you must do one (and only one) of the following three actions:

* Draw Transportation cards: Draw two Transportation cards by either taking the top card from the deck (a blind draw) or taking any one of the five face up cards (if a face up card is taken, replace it with the top card from the deck).[2][3] If a face up Bus card is taken as the first card, you cannot take another card that turn, and you cannot take a face up Bus card as a second card.[3] If three of the five face up cards are Bus cards, discard all five and flip five new cards face up.[3]

* Claim a Route: 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.[3] You cannot claim more than one Route per turn, and you cannot claim a Route if you do not have enough plastic Buses left to place one on each space.[2] You can claim any open Route, even if not connected to a previously claimed Route.[2] When claiming, immediately record the points received and move your Scoring Marker on the Scoring Track.[2]

* Draw Destination Ticket cards: Draw two cards from the top of the Destination Ticket cards deck, keeping at least one but potentially both.[2] Any returned cards are placed at the bottom of the deck.[2]

Ending the Game and Scoring

1. The game ends when a player has two or fewer plastic Buses left in their supply, at which point each player (including that player) gets one last turn.[4]

2. To calculate final scores:

* Recount points earned from claiming Routes.[4]

* Reveal all Destination Ticket cards; add the value of each completed card and subtract the value of any card that was not completed.[4][2]

* Score the value of every completed District (a District is completed by linking all its composing Locations of the same colour and number).[4]

3. The player with the most points wins; in a tie, the player who completed the most Destination Ticket cards wins; if still tied, players share the victory.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook · p.2 · CREDITS · SETUP · OBJECT OF THE GAME · THE GAME TURN

[2] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook · p.1 · Draw Destination Ticket cards

[3] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook · p.2 · Draw Transportation cards · Claim a Route

[4] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook · p.1 · GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · CREDITS

Settled. Play on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 182 ms · ask 4136 ms · total 4320 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4320 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 1, "score": 0.048652, "snippet": "When a player has two or fewer plastic Buses left in their supply, each player - including that player - gets one last turn. Then the game ends and players calculate their final scores: ☛ \u0007 Players should have already accounted for the points they earned as they claimed Routes. To make sure there wa", "headingPath": "GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · CREDITS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "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 off; touring the city on a doubledecker bus is smashing! ☛ Place the board map in t", "headingPath": "CREDITS · SETUP · OBJECT OF THE GAME · THE GAME TURN", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "You can claim any open Route on the board, even if it is not connected to a Route you previously claimed. You cannot claim more than one Route per turn. If you do not have enough plastic Buses left to place one on each space of a given Route, you cannot claim that Route. When you claim a Route, you ", "headingPath": "Draw Destination Ticket cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Transportation cards match the Route colours on the board (green, black, orange, pink, yellow and blue) except for Bus cards which are multicoloured 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. Th", "headingPath": "Draw Transportation cards · Claim a Route", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CREDITS · SETUP · OBJECT OF THE GAME · THE GAME TURN", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Draw Destination Ticket cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Draw Transportation cards · Claim a Route", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · CREDITS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1039}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1039 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1039 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.91932 of 2516 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 11:44 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · CREDITS	p.1	0.048652 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	CREDITS · SETUP · OBJECT OF THE GAME · THE GAME TURN	p.2	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	Draw Destination Ticket cards	p.1	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	Draw Transportation cards · Claim a Route	p.2	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 4 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	CREDITS · SETUP · OBJECT OF THE GAME · THE GAME TURN	p.2	#2	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · CREDITS	p.1	#1	0.048652 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	Draw Destination Ticket cards	p.1	#3	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	Draw Transportation cards · Claim a Route	p.2	#4	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	CREDITS · SETUP · OBJECT OF THE GAME · THE GAME TURN	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	Draw Destination Ticket cards	p.1	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	Draw Transportation cards · Claim a Route	p.2	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride: London — Rulebook (corpus doc 1039)	GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · CREDITS	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 182 ms · first delta 754 ms · total 4320 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 182 ms · ask 4136 ms · gateway work 4320 ms · total 4320 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1847
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 715
tok/sec: 203.5 tok/sec — 715 output tokens in 3.514 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 5s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 969), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.