Ride the Bus Card Game

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Alternatively kids and adults can play this single player thirty one cards video game for free as a web application .

Ride the Bus Card 31 Card Game for Kids Video Game Play Instructions

• Starting the Game
  • Select the yellow and white Play button on the game’s welcome screen.
  • The welcome screen also has buttons for game help, viewing high scores, and playing more games.
  • The lower left corner of the welcome screen has a language select dropdown while the lower right corner has buttons for sharing the game on social media & reading game developer information.
• Game Controls
  • Desktop
    • Use your mouse left click button to select either a card from the deck or the top card from the waste pile.
    • Use your mouse left click button to discard any card you do not want in your hand.
    • After the first pass you can click the Stop the Bus indicator to end your hand and give opposing players one more round before comparing hands.
  • Touchscreen devices
    • Tap the screen with a finger to select & use it like a mouse.
  • Controls & indicators
    • Each player has their remaining coins and cumulative game score shown near their name.
    • The right column of the game has buttons to control game sound, control game music, pause the game & switch to full screen mode.
• Game Play
  • Hand scoring
    • Aces are worth 11, face cards are 10, and all other cards are worth their pip value.
    • Your score is 30 points if you get 3 of a kind.
    • Beyond a 3 of a kind you only score based on whichever suit you perform best in, meaning if you have the Ace of Spades along with a King of Hearts and a 3 of Hearts you would score 13 points and the Ace of Spaces would not count.
  • Winning & losing hands
    • Each player starts the game with 3 tokens. When all tokens are lost it is game over.
    • Whoever gets in last place on each hand loses a token.
    • If you stop the bus and lose the hand you lose 2 tokens.
  • Point scoring
    • Your total game score is cumulative across all hands.
    • Hand score by placement
      • The winner of a hand scores their pip value times 100.
      • The second place player in a hand scores their pip value times 50.
      • The third place player in a hand sources their pip value times 33.
      • The fourth place player in a hand scores their pip value times 25.
      • All scores are rounded to 100, so if you would have scored 858 (e.g. 26 * 33) that would become 900.
    • If you stop the bus but do not win nor lose the hand (e.g. get second place with at least 3 players left in the game) you get a bonus 500 points.
  • Strategy
    • Winning the overall game is about preserving tokens rather than scoring the maximum point total.
    • When there are 3 or 4 players in the hand it can help to be aggressive with pressing the Stop the Bus button early if you have 20 or more points, as there is a good chance at least 1 competitor will have fewer points.
    • When the game is down to 2 players it makes sense to be more conservative with when you call the bus as your competitor may have got a good deal & you lose 2 tokens if their hand is better than your hand, which means even if you started with 3 tokens you would only be 1 other routine hand loss away from losing the game.
    • If you are trying to get the highest point score possible it can make sense to hold out until you have a great score before calling to stop the bus.
• Target Audience
  • The game is suited for people of all ages who like card games like thirty one.
  • The game has no adult themed content.

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CardGames.pro published this Card on January 12, 2022