Car Games
The ABC Game- Object to complete the alphabet first. As you seethe letters on billboards & license plates you shout out your letterand point. Once a letter has been claimed other players cannot usethe same letter. Make it harder by limiting to only license platesor billboard signs.The Theme Song Game- Just silly & fun. One person hums thetune to a favorite TV show (here you can tell I grew up in the 70's) ex:Hawaii Five-0, Gilligan's island, Flipper, Brady Bunch, etc... theone who guesses does the next song.
Guess what I am- One person states they are either a person, place orthing and the others then ask questions (are you blue, can you speak, doyou bark, can you be eaten, etc) until they guess what the person is, thenthey are next.
Contributed by Vicki Shaw
Alphabet Signs: [A variation of the ABC game above]
One person chose the right side of the road and the other person hadthe left. The object of the game was to cite all of the letters ofthe alphabet ,in order, from a to z. You could only use a sign forone letter. The person on the left side usually had to sit sidewaysand read signs as they receded. The first person to z won.
Animals/Cities/Geography:
We also played a game we took turns naming animals (for example). Each person would have to name another animal (no repeating) that startedwith the last letter of the last animal named. This game could beplayed with cities (as we got older) or geographical regions (as we gotolder still). We even have an 'expert' version where all the geographicalregions must start and end with an 'a'. (AsiA, Aegean SeA, AmericA, AtlantA,etc.)
Contributed by Brian Litteral
The Cow Game
This is a car game called "TheCow Game". We are a family of four, so 2 of us take the right side of the roadand 2 the left. You keep a count of all the cows you pass throughoutthe day. But every time you pass a
cemetery on your side of the road,you lose all your points. The winner at the end of the day's drive gets atreat! (It used to be a nickel, but times have changed.)
Contributed by Susie Stranz
The Animal Car Game (Similar to the Cow game)
We usually play on long car trips through the country, because animals are in more abundance there. Everyone in the car plays andlooks for certain animals alongside the road. The animals looked for are ONLY the domesticated kind, because birds would be almostimpossible and the game would be over too fast and would be too boring. As one person spots an animal, they say the sound the animalmakes and gets a certain amount of points for that animal. ex: cow--moo!, horse-neigh, cat-meow.... etc.
The points are given on the difficulty of the animal that was spotted: cow-1 horse-1 dog-1 sheep-2 llama-3 cat-3 donkey-3 pig-4 (rarelyseen, except on REALLY long trips)
anything else spotted everyone must agree on the amount of points given. The game is usually played until a player gets to a certainamount.. we usually play 10 points and that lasts about a half-hour in the countryside... have fun!
Contributed by Katie
