Ride the Bus

This is a great game when there are only two or three people wanting to play a game and drink before they go out for the night. This is also a good game because all you need is cards and beer so you don’t need to find anything special around the apartment. This game is also linked into another drinking card game, so once you learn this one, you can play another game called Irish poker which I will discuss in my next post. This is a simple game that requires no skill or talent, just using common sense.
To play: each round there will always be one person who is the dealer and one person who is “riding the bus” the dealer deals out 9 cards all face up on the table. Four cards parallel to four more cards, and one card in the middle of the two. It will look like a bus with the rows and the driver in the middle. The person who is not dealing starts at one of the two ends and is trying to make it up to the front of the bus then to the back on the other side to get off –of the bus. On every card you can guess high, low, red or black, whichever works best for the odds (For example if the card on the table is a 4 of spades the person would most likely guess higher). The dealer flips over the card from the top of the pile that’s not on the table. If they get it right the person moves up the row onto the second card. This continues until you guess wrong. If a card is guessed wrong, you drink as many seconds as how many cards you had right until then, so you could drink up to 8 seconds then to start from the beginning again. The game is won once the person goes through up and down the rows and gets off the bus. Then the roles switch and the dealer becomes the rider and rider becomes the dealer. If a person goes through the whole deck without getting off the bus all cards are shuffled and starts over again. It is a fun game for two that can lead to drinking a big in a short amount of time.