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Stop the Bus!

Stop the Bus! is a fun card game originally programmed in Flash by Crystal Squid.

To start a game, lay the cards out as shown in the screenshot from the original Flash game and give each player three tokens from the bag.

After each person takes their turn, they give the red cube "bus" to the person to their left. If you feel your cards are good enough, then say "Stop the bus!" or something to that effect, and everyone must show their cards. Closest to 31 is first place, closest to 0 is last place. The person in last place loses a token, unless there is more than one person tied for the lowest score, in which case no one loses any that round. When someone loses all their tokens, they are out of the game.

Each turn, you draw one card from the deck or the waste pile, and then discard one card from your hand. You want to discard low cards, but make sure to try to keep all three of the cards in your hand the same suit if you can.

All three of your cards must be the same suit. If only two are the same suit, then only those two count toward your score. If all three are different suits, then only the highest one counts toward your score.

Three of a kind is worth 30.