About Bus Escape

Bus Escape is a planning puzzle: decide in what order to send the mixed-up buses from the lot to the stops. Waiting passengers can only board a bus of their own color, and buses seat 4, 6, 8, 10 or, for double-deckers, 12. The number of stops is limited, so sending out a bus you do not need yet can clog them. The 150 stages grow from 5 buses to 20; from stage 40 the back of the waiting line is hidden behind ? until its turn comes, and every stage is guaranteed solvable.

How to play

1. The lot has several lanes and only the front bus of each lane (at the bottom) can leave. Tap a lane and its front bus drives to a free stop.
2. The passenger at the front of the queue automatically boards a bus of the same color waiting at a stop. If there is none, nobody behind them can board first; they wait.
3. When a bus is full it leaves by itself and frees its stop. For every color, the number of passengers equals the total seats of that color's buses.
4. You clear the stage when every passenger has boarded and all buses have left. If the stops are full and the front passenger has no bus to board, you are stuck, so use Undo.
5. Stars depend on undos: none is 3 stars, up to two 2 stars, more 1 star. Clearing a stage unlocks the next, and progress is saved on this device.

Tips

• Look at the colors of the first few passengers and bring out those buses from the front of the lanes first.
• There are only as many stops as colors (or one more). Sending out a bus you do not need yet will clog them.
• Big buses (10 and 12 seats) occupy a stop for a long time, so send them when passengers of that color are coming up.
• If you get stuck, undo a few buses and open a different lane first.