Great video and tips! Appreciate all of the work you put into your analysis. I’m a big fan of Ticket to Ride stand alone games and expansion maps. I can see how most of your trips will apply to other versions.

so helpful. have game with cousins and need to win!!

@4:47 But Los Angeles to New York's shortest path (such as the one you list here) is 21 train segments, not 16. And the other route you say is an anomaly at @5:05, Los Angeles to Miami, is 20 train segments, not 18. Therefore, all 30 destination tickets have the same balance system. Or am I missing something? It's generally known that longer routes are stronger, partly because they have more 4/5/6 length routes. I think the more interesting mathematical analysis would be to consider for each route's shortest path, how many "points per train" you'd get, including the value of the destination ticket. Or even further to that, you could look at how many turns it would take to get the required train cards, then figure out the "points per turn". And lastly you could consider not simply just the shortest path, but the "best" path if it's a very similar amount of trains (e.g. LA to NY is much better going El Paso -> Oklahoma City -> Kansas City -> Saint Louis -> Pittsburgh -> New York, yes it's one more train, but it's I think 6 more points than going through Phoenix and Denver) Anyway, I learned alot from the video, thanks!