The goal depends on the length of cruise you select for a 7 day cruise the goal is to be the first to obtain 4 Home Port cards by correctly answering the knowledge question on the specific port card using the question number that matches the number you rolled to get there. For a 14 day cruise you need to obtain 8 Home Port cards and for a 21 day cruise you need to obtain 12 Home Port cards. For a 90 day cruise you'll need to get all 25 Home Port cards! Each player selects one of the 4 colors and needs to collect their Home Port cards of that color. The board is double sided so overall there are 8 ways to play to the game. The players move about the board by moving their 2 inch pewter cruise ship!