Games for long car journeys

North Lower Neil

Any good ones you play to stop the kids getting bored? Few journeys coming up soon!

Car cricket is a classic but ruined a bit by the prevalence of motorways (and no pubs).

I remember playing 'horse' and 'Eddie Stobart' as a kid, just who spots them first. Bit boring though!

Simonsen

North Lower Neil said:

Any good ones you play to stop the kids getting bored? Few journeys coming up soon!

Car cricket is a classic but ruined a bit by the prevalence of motorways (and no pubs).

That's alright....it'd just be like watching Boycott bat.

suzisausage

Trying to be the first to spot Beatle cars. The first to shout the colour of the one you spot, wins the point. 1 point for modern style, 2 points for modern convertible, 3 points for old style, 4 points for old style convertible. Except for red. If you call and point a red one you lose all your points.

cafcnick1992

Just do a capital cities quiz. Stick to Europe to keep the kids entertained and add the odd tricky one from South America to entertain the wife.

But here's the exciting bit...If they get an answer wrong, you have to crash the car and kill your whole family.

The Prince-e-Paul

cafcnick1992 said:

Just do a capital cities quiz. Stick to Europe to keep the kids entertained and add the odd tricky one from South America to entertain the wife.

But here's the exciting bit...If they get an answer wrong, you have to crash the car and kill your whole family.

Hmm. Just done a road trip through France and Spain covering 3500 miles and can safely say that a significant majority of French motorway drivers seem to have been playing the above game and with a geography knowledge similar to the great George Bush.

(When visiting Latin America he announced to his aid that he would need an interpreter that speaks 'Latin')

Henry Irving

Buy in car videos for the rear seats

Leroy Ambrose

suzisausage said:

Trying to be the first to spot Beatle cars. The first to shout the colour of the one you spot, wins the point. 1 point for modern style, 2 points for modern convertible, 3 points for old style, 4 points for old style convertible. Except for red. If you call and point a red one you lose all your points.

Me and my brother used to do a variation of this called 'punch buggy'. Out of your side of the window, every time you see a beetle, shout 'punch buggy (colour)' - eg: PUNCH BUGGY RED, then give the other passe her a dead arm. Worked out great for me, being 3 years older...

AFKABartram

Brazil v Italy, 1970

FORD

Who can sleep the longest gets £50 normally does the trick. Shuts the wife up! Obviously the driver can't play it!

MrOneLung

AFKABartram said:

Brazil v Italy, 1970

Ten years on - still got it !!!!

SaoPauloAddick

We play alphabet cars - working as a team, you have to try to spot a car (can be make or model) that starts with an A, then a B, etc all the way to Z. To keep things ticking over on tough letters, you can also choose a joker that counts as the any letter (E.g. Dacia sanderos, or cars with Belgian number plates.)

Or for cabin pressure fans, there's always Yellow Car

Scoham

Shout out every mistake made by Roland and Katrien since the takeover.

Todds_right_hook

Shout out a Roland signing and then get the kids to guess the undisclosed transfer fee

North Lower Neil

Leroy Ambrose said:

suzisausage said:

Trying to be the first to spot Beatle cars. The first to shout the colour of the one you spot, wins the point. 1 point for modern style, 2 points for modern convertible, 3 points for old style, 4 points for old style convertible. Except for red. If you call and point a red one you lose all your points.

Me and my brother used to do a variation of this called 'punch buggy'. Out of your side of the window, every time you see a beetle, shout 'punch buggy (colour)' - eg: PUNCH BUGGY RED, then give the other passe her a dead arm. Worked out great for me, being 3 years older...

We did it with Royal Mail vans at school.

For 7 years.

Just up from the massive sorting office on West Hill in Dartford.

sam3110

A to Z game. Choose a category and each person has to name something relating to that category that begins with A, then B, then C all the way to Z. Can be foods, countries, girls names, animals, whatever you want

Exiled_Addick

SaoPauloAddick said:

We play alphabet cars - working as a team, you have to try to spot a car (can be make or model) that starts with an A, then a B, etc all the way to Z. To keep things ticking over on tough letters, you can also choose a joker that counts as the any letter (E.g. Dacia sanderos, or cars with Belgian number plates.)

Or for cabin pressure fans, there's always Yellow Car

You're always playing Yellow Car.

stackitsteve

Shopping list.

First person says "I went to the shop and bought a *something beginning with A*
Next person says "I went to the shop and bought a *repeat the A item and add a B item"
Next person repeats the shopping list back and adds an item beginning with C

The more players the better as you have to remember what everyone else has added to the shopping list.

Also a variant of the same game is "I was making a sandwich and I put in a..."
Same principle but only food items instead.

Atletico Addick

FORD said:

Who can sleep the longest gets £50 normally does the trick. Shuts the wife up! Obviously the driver can't play it!

Can I've a lift mate?

Stig

I believe that Torquay v Carlisle is one of the best games for a long car journey.

ricky_otto

Play the game where you have to name the amount of people @ElfsborgAddick has ponced a beer off. That should cover the duration of the journey.

I would suggest naming the amount of people he has brought a beer for, but that would last as long as it takes to reverse off your drive and on to the road.

ElfsborgAddick

ricky_otto said:

Play the game where you have to name the amount of people @ElfsborgAddick has ponced a beer off. That should cover the duration of the journey.

I would suggest naming the amount of people he has brought a beer for, but that would last as long as it takes to reverse off your drive and on to the road.

F*** that Mr Otto, I have saved you bundles over the years.

Apart from when people are buying me drinks I'm always getting the first round in.

ElfsborgAddick

A better game is you being able to keep your trap shut for more than 10 seconds.

ricky_otto

ElfsborgAddick said:

A better game is you being able to keep your trap shut for more than 10 seconds.

That my friend isnt an option.

ElfsborgAddick

ricky_otto said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

A better game is you being able to keep your trap shut for more than 10 seconds.

That my friend isnt an option.

I bet you talk to yourself.

I reckon you're good at scrabble.

ricky_otto

ElfsborgAddick said:

ricky_otto said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

A better game is you being able to keep your trap shut for more than 10 seconds.

That my friend isnt an option.

I bet you talk to yourself.

I reckon you're good at scrabble.

Sometimes I do - always get the answer I'm looking for then.

ElfsborgAddick

SaoPauloAddick said:

We play alphabet cars - working as a team, you have to try to spot a car (can be make or model) that starts with an A, then a B, etc all the way to Z. To keep things ticking over on tough letters, you can also choose a joker that counts as the any letter (E.g. Dacia sanderos, or cars with Belgian number plates.)

Or for cabin pressure fans, there's always Yellow Car

Borra Palmeiras!

TellyTubby

Pop master. Get song and artist. Can do this with CD or dab radio with display covered.

DaveMehmet

My old man used to get us to play a game called shut the f**k up and let me concentrate on driving.

Big_Bad_World

Sedative Smarties always seems to work with my kids.

ricky_otto

What you doing driving anyway? Should be getting the train. I'm starting to question if you actually support Charlton.

ElfsborgAddick

ricky_otto said:

What you doing driving anyway? Should be getting the train. I'm starting to question if you actually support Charlton.

The only driving I do is on the golf course.