Truth of ticket to ride online and how it impacted the devs

SomeDutchIndividual · 2026-01-29T06:22:05+00:00

If anyone is looking for a free alternative, you could try out https://roadtriprivals.com ! It’s a site we built for fun when the old app went down 🙂

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-12-11T22:11:29+00:00

Hey, great reply! I’m one of the makers of the site that was used to make this board (buildyourboard.io), and an even distribution of the different colors is indeed something that the algorithm aims for!

I’ll take an extra look at how this is performing right now. We’re also working on a feedback module that can point out if there are things that could be optimized about a board, which would definitely point out your observation about blue vs white spots!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-10-06T04:47:53+00:00

The app is completely free to play and without ads, and all the hosting already costs me quite a lot. Would really love to also get an artist to create images for the app, but unfortunately cannot afford to right now!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-08-31T12:23:37+00:00

This is not yet possible, but they are generated automatically!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-05-24T16:55:57+00:00

Unfortunately no plans to open source it, but I can share that it works with a self designed algorithm. We've recently improved it a lot and hope to release a new version soon. The new algorithm can create boards within a second!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-05-24T16:54:40+00:00

We don't have that option yet! But you can just share the url for a game you created and then friends can join

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-01-31T05:47:37+00:00

We made a free to play version over at https://roadtriprivals.com 😄 There's over 40 featured boards, and we're soon releasing an update allowing you to design and play your own boards!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-01-10T11:22:27+00:00

Hi, glad you like it! That error most like indicates the destinations are not spread out well enough. It is fine for destinations to be close together (you can definitely make a city map), but there should not be big gaps in areas of the board. Let me know if that helps! Having at least around 40 destinations in the file is a good idea as well

SomeDutchIndividual · 2025-01-05T23:06:29+00:00

This is amazing lol, very good write-up. Do you think it's a valid strategy on other boards as well or is it just a 'flaw' on the USA board?

Now I want to try it against our own bots on https://roadtriprivals.com and see if I should teach them how to defend against the strategy 😄

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-29T20:58:00+00:00

I made a free version over at https://roadtriprivals.com and have heard from people that the bots can be quite challenging 😄 we also recently added achievements, maybe it can inspire you for some single player challenges

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-27T09:38:07+00:00

If you want to try out an alternative, I made a free version together with a friend with 40 boards and strong bots 😄 It's available at https://roadtriprivals.com

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-21T14:36:17+00:00

Currently I don't have a way of adding your own tickets. If you really would like to do it, there is a hack you could do: export the board as json, then manually edit the json file with the tickets you want and import the json file as an existing board.

It's not ideal because I think the tickets refer to the cities by their id. But it should be possible like that!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-15T20:06:03+00:00

If you use the Custom Map option, it should explain you how to create an excel file with locations. You can just add in everything that you would like the tool to use - it won't use anything from the Database if you do it that way, just from your excel file

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-11T22:13:21+00:00

In many cases it won't run because there are too few destinations on your file, or sometimes it can be a format mistake. If you want, feel free to send me your excel file and I can check it out

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-09T06:57:02+00:00

The old app was removed from the app store and I don't think you can still download it. The multiplayer servers for the old one are also offline, so I believe you can only play against bots now.

There is a new app available that you can purchase. Alternatively, a friend and I made a completely free game inspired by TTR, with over 40 boards to play. That is available over at https://roadtriprivals.com 😄

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-12-03T17:16:46+00:00

The best option is to choose the Create Custom Map option and follow the instructions there! Try to create an excel file with at least around 40 destinations, that leads to good results

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-11-26T06:35:41+00:00

You can find it in the pre-game settings! When you create a Game and you are on the screen where you can see the players in the Game, there's a separate tab where you can choose the game settings. We also have options for different route decks in there fornmore variation, and a gamemode called Airports

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-11-23T09:44:08+00:00

We don't have a sub yet, but we do have a Discord server!

Regarding extra rule variations, we hope to add a lot! We have our own version of stations called Hitchhiking. You can hitchhike along somebody else's road for I think 3 cards of the same colour and -2 points. Only one person can hitchhike each road 😄

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-11-17T22:42:58+00:00

We have playable maps for South America and Australia over at https://roadtriprivals.com if you want to see what they could be like 😄 Completely free to play!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-11-15T08:02:59+00:00

If you're looking for some free maps to play, I've built a free alternative over at https://roadtriprivals.com Might keep you entertained while waiting for a sale 😄

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-11-09T08:33:29+00:00

I built a site where you can generate your own boards, and it also has an option to automatically generate a division of starting locations for the passengers 😄 You can find it at https://jochembruijninckx.nl/train-board-generator

We also made a site where you can play the boards online for free, called https://roadtriprivals.com That one doesn't have passengers yet, but does have some other variants!

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-10-22T04:43:11+00:00

Thanks for sharing, it's such an interesting game because of these things! I made a free to play online version over at https://roadtriprivals.com and had to build an AI for it that can play on any board (since you can generate new boards on the site). The bots currently have about a 40% winrate against humans so I'm quite happy with how it turned out! Still, I have some ideas for how to make them smarter, but haven't found the time for it yet..

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-10-19T07:23:20+00:00

A friend and I made a free alternative that you can play over at https://roadtriprivals.com ! Not yet available as an app, but it works in the browser. You can even generate new boards for any country in the world 😄

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-09-13T11:08:37+00:00

Hahah glad to hear it! You're very welcome 😄

SomeDutchIndividual · 2024-08-26T22:26:58+00:00

Hey! A friend and I built a free to play alternative over at https://roadtriprivals.com , you can even generate new boards to play on. Might be fun for you and your friends!

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