Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Rules and how to play the game. The game is suitable for player from the age of three years upward and can have a total of four players. It is a game designed to teach small children important social skills.

Overview

This is a board game and comprises of four Bus Playing Pieces, one Pigeon Playing Piece, Spinner, sixteen Tokens and Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Rule Book.

A Pigeon wants to take your bus and drive it, and it is up to the player to stop him. The bus moves around the game board and the strategy is simply to stop the pigeon from driving it. However, one must drive very carefully because if the pigeon stops on the same space as the player’s bus, the player must go back to start of the game and try again.

The object and aim of the game is to improve and focus children’s concentration, motor skills and above all strategy.

Playing the game

Punch out all the tokens and place them on their designated store fronts on the game board. The youngster player goes first by spinning the provided spinner. The player moves the number of spaces on the spinner. The bus or the pigeon can move in all directions but a piece may only move in one direction on each play. Some spaces have special instructions.

According to Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Rules, when a player stops on one of the four different store spaces (The Hot Dog Store, The Driver’s License Store, The Bunny Store and The Key Store) the player must stop and pick up a token from that store. A player must have one token before they can travel on to the Bus Depot.

An exact spin isn’t necessary to stop and collect a token. If the player is a couple of spaces away from a store and spins five, the player must stop at that store and collect a token and the player’s turn is over.

If the pigeon stops on a space occupied by a player’s bus, the pigeon can drive the bus and the player must go back to the start.

Winning the Game

How to win the game is easy, according to Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Rules. The first player to collect a token from each of the four stores and proceed to the bus depot is the winner. An exact spin isn’t necessary to get to the Bus Dept. If the bus depot is three spaces away and the player spins five, the player can stop on the depot and win the game.