Ride the Bus

The Deal

Everyone answers four questions to build a hand of four cards.

1. Red or black?
2. Higher or lower than your first card?
3. Inside or outside your first two cards?
4. Which suit? ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

A card is dealt after each guess. Wrong guess: take 1. Pick how it runs in New game:

• One player at a time: you keep going until you get all four right in a row. A wrong guess clears your cards and you start over from question 1. Your hand is the four cards that made it.
• Around the table: everyone answers question 1, then question 2, and so on. You keep every card, right or wrong.

The Pyramid

Cards are flipped one at a time, bottom row first.

• The pyramid has 5 rows. The bottom row is worth 1, the next 2, and so on up to the top.
• When a card flips, everyone holding the same rank lays those cards down and hands out that row's value for each card they laid.
• The giver taps who takes them — split them however you like.

Ride the Bus

Whoever holds the most cards rides.

• Ties: the tied player whose cards add up highest rides (2–10 face value, J 11, Q 12, K 13, A 14). Still tied? A one-card draw-off — lowest card rides.
• The rider gets a fresh shuffled deck and answers the same four questions in a row.
• Wrong answer: take 1, the cards are cleared and they start over from question 1.
• Four right in a row and they're off the bus. If the deck runs out, the used cards are shuffled back in.

The fine print

• Aces are high.
• Ties are wrong. A card that equals the one before it is neither higher nor lower.
• For inside/outside, a card equal to either edge is neither inside nor outside — wrong.
• Hands are face-up for everyone, so nobody can fib in the pyramid.
• 21+ only. Drink responsibly. A long bus ride adds up fast — use sips, swap in soda or water, or rename drinks to points in config.js. Know your limit, and never drink and drive.
• Bus ride only (New game) skips straight to round 3 with whoever you pick.
• The tab tracks what everyone took and gave. Rename “drinks” to anything (points, sips…) in config.js.