Bus Color Jam

They don't board. Instead they wait in one of the empty tiles you're given, leaving the bus free for the right color. It's a handy way to buy time, but every waiting passenger uses up a tile you might need later.

You fail when you run out of empty tiles and a mismatched passenger arrives. With nowhere left to wait, they have no place to go. Plan who you send first so those spare tiles don't fill up too early.

You win by boarding all passengers onto their correctly colored buses. Every single one has to get on, so clearing the level means thinking about the order you tap them in, not just tapping fast.

Yes. The levels grow progressively more challenging as you advance, so early ones ease you in and later ones ask for more careful planning of who boards and who waits.

A bit of both, in a good way. It's a relaxing puzzle with a brain-teasing edge. There's no rush to tap fast, but you do have to think ahead so you don't run out of empty tiles.

Bus Color Jam was developed by Drivix Games. It's a colorful puzzle game about matching passengers to their buses, and you can play it free in your browser.

Yes. It runs in your desktop browser, it's free, and there's nothing to download. Open the page, tap a passenger, and you're playing. The game is built in portrait orientation.