Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition

Here is my guide for 400 points. It will also net you this achievement:

This achievement is not super difficult, but it does require a lot of things to go your way in order to get to 400 points. I was able to get this on my 6th attempt, but it could have easily been my 20th or more attempt depending on how my luck went.

First make sure you are using the Mega variant map. I picked Jane Stanbot as the one computer and make sure you go first.

The route is extremely important and you need to know your route before you pick the Destination Tickets at the start of the game.

Vancouver -> Seattle - 1 Grey
Seattle -> Portland - 1 Grey
Portland -> San Francisco - 5 Green
San Francisco -> Los Angeles - 3 Yellow
Los Angeles -> Las Vegas - 2 Grey
Los Angeles -> Phoenix - 3 Grey
Phoenix -> Santa Fe - 3 Grey
Santa Fe -> Oklahoma City - 3 Blue
Oklahoma City -> Kansas City - 2 Grey
Kansas City -> Chicago - 2 White
Kansas City -> Saint Louis - 2 Pink
Saint Louis -> Nashville - 2 Grey
Nashville -> Atlanta - 1 Grey
Atlanta -> Miami - 5 Blue
Atlanta -> Raleigh - 2 Grey
Raleigh -> Washington - 2 Grey
Washington - New York - 2 Orange
New York -> Boston - 2 Red
Boston -> Montreal - 2 Grey

The total amount of each card is as follows:

Black -> 0
White -> 2
Blue -> 8
Green -> 5
Orange -> 2
Pink-> 2
Red -> 2
Yellow -> 3
Grey -> 21

Now that we have our route planned out we can select our starting Destination Tickets. I waited until I had at least 4 out of the 5 tickets that would be completed through my route. Once the game started up I immediately grabbed Destination Tickets for my first two turns. I don't know if this is necessary to do at the beginning but I tried building up my card deck first and the computer finished before i could lay all my tracks down.

When you are drawing your train cards it is important that you keep your eye out for the colors you need. Particularly Blue and Green. As you need the most of those.

As you're drawing if you see the computer completing routes near yours you need to start claiming some of the routes so she can't go on your path. If she does go on your path you will need to start over. But you want her path to be close to yours so you can block her. This is how the computer stalls out and you are able to continually draw destination tickets at the end of the game to get your required score.

In order for you to not end the game you must have at least 3 trains left. I chose to not complete the path between San Francisco and Los Angeles until I had enough points to end the game. I am sure that you can use any route that has at least 3, but I thought this one was out of the way and less likely to be used.

Once you lay all your tracks except for 1 costing 3 trains now it's time to start drawing Destination Tickets. If you have made it this far then you successfully made the computer stall out and they will continue to draw train cards and not place any tracks down. I don't remember how many destination tickets I completed but it was in the neighborhood of 25. As you start getting upwards of 20 start adding up all the destination ticket scores to make sure you are over 400 points. I gave myself some wiggle room and made sure that I was well over 400. I was around 480 points when all was said and done. Make sure you subtract out the points of routes that you can't complete. I stopped drawing Destination Tickets after a couple times of getting routes that I didn't have.

As you can see there are a lot of things that have to go your way to get this to unlock. I hope that by having a route and knowing how many train cards of each color helps to make this easier. Good luck!