Stop the Bus is a three-card game where you try to build the strongest hand and stay on the bus longer than your opponents.
Draw a card, choose what to keep, and aim for 31 points in a single suit. When your hand looks strong, stop the bus to bring the round to a close.
Play free against computer opponents directly in your browser. Quick turns and tense final decisions make it a good choice when you want a short card-game break.
Each player holds three cards. On your turn, draw from the deck or take the top card from the discard pile, then discard one card to return to a three-card hand.
Improve your hand by collecting cards of the same suit or forming three of a kind. You can see the top discard before deciding whether to take it or draw an unknown card.
When you think your hand is strong enough, choose Stop the Bus. Everyone else gets one final turn before the hands are revealed.
The player with the lowest score loses a bus token. A player who loses all their tokens is eliminated. The last player remaining wins.
Your score is the highest total you can make with cards of a single suit. Cards of different suits are not all added together.
For example, an Ace, King and Queen of hearts score 31. An Ace and King of hearts with a 9 of clubs score 21, because the hearts form your highest suit total.
Only cards of the same suit are added together, using your highest suit total. Three of a kind is a special hand worth 30½ points.
Your opponents each get one final turn, then all hands are compared and the lowest-scoring player loses a token.
Yes. This version provides computer opponents and an interactive tutorial to help you learn the rules.
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