Busy Buses

A quick and fun card game about rainbow buses. Can you match the right bus, route, and driver, and collect the passengers? Busy Buses is the perfect stocking filler for children who love buses, or it could be a cheery Secret Santa gift for that tricky person at work...

In Busy Buses you and your fellow players are new trainees learning to co-ordinate the buses in Reading. You have a depot full of brightly painted buses, a large stack of route maps, and your driver colleagues raring to go. On the table in front of you are four different bus stops, at which passengers are waiting. You collect passengers by matching a bus card, a route card, and a driver card to the colour on the passenger card. The player with the most passengers at the end of the game wins.

Busy Buses is easy to learn and play — pick up cards and match three of the same colour! But what's the best card to pick up? Should you collect passengers now, or wait until more are waiting? Just when you think you have a winning strategy, someone else comes along and collects all the passengers instead!

Age 6+
10-20 minutes
2-4 players

Busy Buses was co-designed and illustrated by Year 5 of Oxford Road Community School, a primary school in Reading. Reading Buses very kindly checked the bus stops for accuracy and provided the exact colour codes for the buses.

Profits from this game go to the school and to the Reading Buses charity of the year. Please help us out by picking up a copy of Busy Buses!