Bus

To set up, place the game board in the center of the play area. If it's the first time playing, attach the spinner to the board. Place the five time stones on their designated spaces next to the clock, pointing the clock hand towards the house symbol. Set the 15 orange passenger tokens in a supply next to the board. Each player chooses a color and takes 20 action markers, 25 line markers, 5 bus tokens, and a scoring disc. Place the scoring disc on the '0' space of the victory point track. Each player places one of their bus tokens at the top of their matching colored track. Players then take turns placing two building tokens of their choice on any two different locations marked with a '1' on the board. After all buildings are placed, players take turns placing one line marker on any street on the board. Then, in reverse player order, players take turns expanding their lines by adding a second line marker adjacent to one of their previously placed markers.

The objective of Bus is to earn the most victory points by effectively transporting passengers. Passengers want to travel from their homes to offices, from offices to pubs, and from pubs back to their homes. Players earn points by successfully moving passengers to their desired destinations using their bus routes.

The game is played over a series of rounds, each consisting of two phases: choosing actions and resolving actions. In the first phase, starting with the first player and moving clockwise, players take turns choosing one of seven available actions by placing one of their action markers on an unoccupied space. Some actions can only be chosen once per round, while others can be chosen multiple times. Players continue choosing actions until each has placed at least two action markers. After this, players can choose to pass or continue placing markers. Once all players have passed, the second phase begins. Actions are resolved from top to bottom on the board. For actions with multiple markers, they are resolved from left to right, regardless of placement order. The 'maximum number of buses' value, which is the highest number of buses owned by any single player, influences the power of certain actions for all players.

Players score one victory point for each passenger successfully moved to their desired building. This is tracked on the victory point track. At the end of the game, after all rounds are complete, each player subtracts one point for each time stone they collected during the game. The player with the highest final score wins. In case of a tie, the tied player with the most collected time stones wins. If there's still a tie, the tied player whose scoring disc is on the bottom of the point stack (meaning they reached that score first) wins.

The game ends immediately if either of two conditions are met: all numbered building spaces on the board are filled, or the final time stone is used. If the final time stone is used, the 'Vroommm!' action for that round is skipped, and the game proceeds directly to final scoring. If a player runs out of action markers, they cannot take any more actions for the remainder of the game, but other players continue playing as normal until one of the game-end conditions is met.