<P> Stop the Bus is a simple card game, common in England where it is also known as Bastard . </P> <P> The game uses the hand rankings from Brag . Three of a kind, (a prial), is the best hand followed by a running flush, then a run, then a flush, then a pair followed by a high card . If a hand is otherwise similar then the card is ranked by high card or high pair, then by middle card or kicker, then low card . No suits are higher valued than any other . </P> <P> The game is played with a standard 52 card deck . Each player starts with some number of tokens, generally 3, and the last person to lose his token wins . Each round everybody is dealt 3 cards face down, with 3 dealt into the middle face up . Starting with the player on the dealer's left and working clockwise each player must take either 1 or 3 of the centre cards and replace it with an equal number from his own hand . After playing, he may elect to "Stop the Bus", in which case everybody else gets one turn only . After somebody has "Stopped the Bus" and everybody else has had a turn, the hands are revealed . The player or players with the weakest hand must relinquish one token, and play continues with the new dealer being the player immediately clockwise of the old dealer . Once a player has lost all of his tokens he is out . The winner is the last player to retain a token . </P>

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