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How to play Ride the Bus

Play Ride the Bus online for free: four card guesses in a row, red or black, higher or lower, inside or outside, and the suit. Stop or push on for more.

How to play

Four guesses in a row, each one harder than the last. Get one right and you can take the money or push on. Get one wrong and the bet is gone.

  • -Round 1 - is the first card red or black?
  • -Round 2 - is the next card higher or lower than the first?
  • -Round 3 - is the third card inside or outside the first two?
  • -Round 4 - name the suit of the fourth card.
  • -Win round 4 and it pays out on its own; there is nothing left to risk.

Cash Out appears once round 1 is won. Before that there is nothing banked to take.

The odds each round

Aces are low and kings are high. Every card is drawn fresh from a full deck, so what has already come out never changes what comes next.

Red or Black

1 in 2

Higher or Same / Lower or Same

depends on the card

Inside or Outside

depends on the gap

Suit

1 in 4

  • -Boundaries count as inside, and a tie counts for Higher or Same and Lower or Same alike.
  • -On an ace the only call is Higher or Same-rank, and on a king only Lower or Same-rank.
  • -If the first two cards are an ace and a king, nothing can be outside them, so that option is not offered.

How the payout is worked out

Each round multiplies your stake by one divided by the chance of the option you picked - so the longer the odds you take, the more it pays.

The house edge of 5% is taken once, off the whole run, not once per round. That means the expected return is 95% whichever options you pick and whenever you stop. Picking long odds does not cost you anything extra - it only makes the swings bigger.

Red, then cash out

1.90x

Red, Higher or Same on a 7

3.52x

All four, picking 1-in-13 and 1-in-4

1284.40x

Multipliers and payouts are always rounded down, never up.

Strategy

There is no play that beats the 95% return, so the only real question is how much variance you want.

  • -Cashing out after round 1 wins half the time and pays 1.90x.
  • -Riding all four rounds wins about one time in a hundred and pays enormously.
  • -On round 2 the safe call is whichever side the card leaves more room for - a low card favours Higher.
  • -On round 3 a wide gap favours Inside and a narrow one favours Outside; the button shows which is paying more.
  • -Round 4 is a flat 1 in 4 whatever you pick, so the suit never matters.
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