Six cards stand between you and the end zone. Flip a card, name the player’s number, and a right answer moves you up the field while a wrong one — or the 30-second clock running out — pushes you back.
Get past the 50 and you’re over the hump. Answer the sixth card to win.
Toss the Rock is Ride the Bus, the card game, rebuilt as NFL trivia. Six cards stand between you and the end zone: answer right and you move up the field, answer wrong and you get pushed back. You choose the positions, the difficulty and how obscure the players get before the first card is turned.
What you choose before the first card matters more than anything you do after it. Positions, difficulty and how obscure the players get all move together, and a deck of household names is a different game from a deck of deep cuts.
A wrong answer pushes you back one card rather than ending the run, so nothing is ever fatal and a bad card only costs you the ground you already made. Winning means answering the sixth card correctly, which means you need one more right answer than you have wrong ones, plus five.
Signed in, the number worth chasing is the fewest cards you have ever needed to win. It rewards a clean run rather than a long one.
