Ride the Bus

For the card game Ride the Bus you need a deck of playing cards. Shuffle the cards and start the game by asking every player a question each round.

The player has to guess the answer to this question and then draws a card. For every wrong answer that player gets 1 penalty point. The rounds are as follows: Round 1: Red or black? Round 2: Higher or lower? Round 3: Inside or outside? Round 4: Same or different? Is the suit the same as or different from the other 3 cards?

Then the game begins. Cards are flipped over one at a time, from bottom to top. If a player has this card, they place it on the flipped card and penalty points may be handed out per card.

Too late laying your card? Then you keep it, unless a following card has the same value. Are there two cards of the same value in one row (e.g. 8 of hearts and 8 of clubs)? Then place a new card on top.

The player with the most cards at the end goes “on the bus”. Shuffle the cards again and have this person draw a card and toss it. This card determines the length of the bus and whether the bus is open or closed. If the card lands face up, the bus is open. If the card lands face down, the bus is closed. When a 10 or higher is drawn, a checkpoint may be placed.

The person on the bus must then guess “higher or lower?” for each card and place a new card on top (with a closed bus you flip the card that is lying there). Right? Then move on to the next one. Wrong? Then start all over again and get one penalty point for every card behind you. Then replace the cards (with a closed bus you turn all the cards face down again).