A few years ago I came up with a game where the navigator/DJ queues up 3 songs all connected in some way and the driver (and other passengers) have to figure out what the connection is. It's become my favourite road trip game, but now I can't stop noticing random details in songs that would make cool themes.
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The licence plate game. I-spy. Slug bug.
Was going to say Slug Bug. Not sure you can play this game nowadays. Kids would fall asleep before spotting the Bug.
The cow/graveyard game, finding signs that start with each letter of the alphabet, finding license plates from the most states, punch buggy of course, and if my parents were pissed off the silent game was enforced.
But NEVER counting the number of cars you see. That was bad luck.
I'd wait until the driver was oblivious to me (in the back seat) and make strange noises with my mouth/nose/whatever and try to get the driver to think something suddenly went wrong with the car. It's a game of subtlety that got me through many a road trip.
Most recently, spot the car that isn't black, white, grey, blue or red.
Commercial vehicles don't count. Gold/bronze gets 1 pt; yellow gets 2 or 4 if it isn't a sports car; pink gets 4; dark/british racing green gets 4 or 8 if it isn't vintage; any other type of green gets 6.
We were making this up at the time. That's as far as we got.
We have played the legs game occasionally, but not much fun on motorways.
And "Horse" from Eagle vs Shark. You win the round when you see a horse and say "horse".
"Pay attention and stay awake"
Mrs. Noodle and I used to take a lot of road trips; we'd do crossword puzzles between audiobooks, where she would read out the clue, number of letters and any crossings.
The pub name legs game. Not sure what it's called really.
Premise is this:
Driving through towns/villages/etc and look for pubs.
Count how many legs are associated with the name of the pub. Highest number wins.
Farmers Arms - 2 legs (By default humans have 2 legs)
The Dunn Cow - 4 legs
The Blue Bell - 0 legs
Hare and Hounds - Many legs
Typing it out reminded me of the otter sketch from Dare to Believe so here it is:
I loved this game! I'll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like "The Batley Marching Band"
"What's that smell?"
How do you play that?
I make sure that the windows are all up and locked, then I fart silently and ask anyone if they can smell petrol
Of course, everyone immediately sniffs deeply
Hilarious for all