Ticket to Ride: San Francisco

To set up Ticket to Ride: San Francisco, each player selects a set of cable cars. Shuffle the transportation cards and deal two to each player, placing the remaining deck near the board and flipping the top five face up. If three are ferry cards, discard and replace them. Next, shuffle the destination ticket cards, deal two to each player, and have them keep at least one, placing any rejected cards on the bottom of the deck. Finally, stack the tourist tokens by symbol and place stacks on each location identified by a red spot, with the number per stack depending on player count, and distribute any remaining stacks.

The main objective of Ticket to Ride: San Francisco is to score the most points by the end of the game. Players achieve this by claiming routes across the city, successfully completing their secret destination tickets, and collecting sets of unique tourist tokens.

On your turn, you must perform one of three possible actions: draw two transportation cards from the deck or face-up display (noting special rules for rainbow ferry cards), claim a route by discarding matching transportation cards and placing your cable cars, or draw two new destination ticket cards and keep at least one.

At the end of the game, players score points for their claimed routes according to the board chart. Additional points are awarded or subtracted for completed or failed destination tickets respectively, and bonus points are scored for collected sets of unique tourist tokens based on the token chart.

The game triggers its final phase when any player has two or fewer cable cars left. At this point, every player gets one final turn before final scoring is calculated.