Bus Load

Bus Load is a free color-matching bus puzzle you play with single taps, right in your browser with no download. You look down on a packed 3D parking lot of light grey tiles. Shiny toy cars, vans and buses stand nose to tail, each in one bright color with a white arrow on its roof. Beside the lot is a row of bays marked P, and beyond them a big crowd of riders winds along a heart-shaped path, every rider dressed in the color of the vehicle they want to ride.

Tap a vehicle and it drives the way its arrow points. If its road to the edge of the lot is clear, it pulls out, follows the street around the lot and parks in a free bay. If something stands in the way, it bumps into it and rolls back to its spot; that costs you nothing but a moment. Riders only board from the front of the line: the first rider walks to a parked vehicle of their own color and hops on, then the next one, and so on. A full vehicle drives off and frees its bay. Cars carry 4 riders, vans 6 and buses 10.

The catch is the bays. Each lot has between two and six, and a vehicle that waits for riders who are still far back in the line keeps its bay the whole time. When every bay is taken and the rider at the front has no vehicle of their color parked, the lot jams and you try it again. So the real question on every tap is not just which vehicle can get out, but which one the line needs next, and which blocker you can afford to park while you dig out the car behind it.

New pieces arrive as you go. Vans hold a bay for longer, mystery cars are grey with a question mark until their road is clear, buses are long blockers with ten seats, colored boom gates close a lane until a vehicle of their color leaves full, garages roll out their next car once the door is clear, two-tone coaches wait for riders of two colors, and two-way cars can drive out of whichever end is free. Lots grow as you go, from a few cars to almost thirty vehicles packed into a big lot. From lot 15, every fifth lot is a Hard lot with no spare bay, and some of them give you only two bays. Every lot in the campaign is checked by a solver, so it can always be cleared with the bays you are given.

Clear a lot with as few bays in use as possible to earn three stars. Every lot pays coins, and you can double them once with a short video. From lot 4 two boosters sit at the bottom of the screen: Magnet lifts any vehicle straight to a free bay, past cars and gates, and Extra bay adds one more bay for the current lot. You start with one of each, buy more with coins, or watch a video when you are short. If a lot jams, a video gives you one extra bay or a free magnet to carry on. Coins also buy paint jobs in the Garage. The campaign has 80 lots, then Rush hour serves endless new ones. Your progress is saved in your browser, a daily reward adds coins when you come back, and the lots you clear count on the weekly board.