No Ticket to Ride

The Cross-Country Hobo Adventure Game!

No Ticket to Ride is a cross-country hobo adventure. Players cooperate to help each other get to jobs by catching out trains on a map of North America. 

This is a hack/mod of the board game Ticket to Ride by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder. Get it for free on itch!

  • For 2-5 Players
  • Ages 8 and Above
  • 30-60 Minutes

On a blustery spring evening, five hoboes living in a hobo jungle near the city’s railroad made plans for the coming season and where they would look for work. Heavy industry, construction and farming had been hard hit by the Great Depression, and old jobs that had been plentiful and reliable were now hard to come by. So now they ride the rails as migrant workers, traveling to where the scant jobs are available when they are available. With little work and little money, they need to help each other survive and save money by catching out, hopping freight trains and avoiding the local bulls who patrol the railyards.

Components:

  • A copy of Days of Wonder’s Ticket to Ride by Alan R. Moon. No Ticket to Ride is an alternative ruleset for using the same components found in that game. Specifically players will need:
    • The plastic Colored Train Cars, Train Car Cards and 30 Destination Ticket Cards
    • Destination Ticket Cards now referred to as Job Ticket Cards
    • Wooden Scoring Markers one for each player
  • EVERY PLAYER is required to bring a distinct bottle cap, or the game’s host can provide them. Each player uses this bottle-cap as their new Hobo Marker on the board. When players are co-located in a city these bottle caps can be stacked on one another.
  • OPTIONAL: Players are encouraged to bring food to share and drinks for themselves and can get Jungle Points for doing so.

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