Games you played on long car trips as a kid. For us it was beaver. Who

[applegrove]

ever counted the most volkswagon beatles on the way up to the cottage won. And there was a volkswagon beatle dealership along the road up to the cottage so the numbers got up there! LOL!

We also used to open car windows and pull foliage from the side of the dirt road. Naturally my older sister figured out that if you sat on the side of the car opposite to the driver you were closer to the side of the road where all the bushes were. She usually won. Then there were the wild rose bushes with thorns you had to watch out for...you couldn't just grab bushes randomly...you had to watch out for thorns on the wild rose bushes.

You?

[madinmaryland]

1. "beaver" Huh? What's that??

:hide:

[applegrove]

3. We were in Canada where the beaver is the national animal. It is on our 5 cent coin. LOL! I think

the connotation is a little different in the USA.

[LynneSin]

2. We did the license plate game

Until finally I was able to beat my older brother playing it - then he didn't want to play it anymore.

I found Hawaii that day!

[tigereye]

10. same here, and then we played it with my kid when we

went on trips, too.

[stuntcat]

4. Mad-Libs

I'm an only child so I played with my parents or my aunts and uncles. Sometimes we still played with Mad-Libs in college too.

[applegrove]

5. What is mad-libs?

[stuntcat]

7. the word games, they were for sale at gas stations I think or maybe mine came from toy stores

They have short stories with blanks in them and you fill them with random words and make funny stories. It was a hoot :D

[Inchworm]

11. Plus Mad-Libs taught parts of speech

Cool stuff. They were pretty fun :)

:hi:

[Maine-ah]

6. that would be punch buggy

you see a vw bug and you punch the person next to you and yell "punch buggy" followed by the color....my brother (now 41) reminded (punched me, lol) me of that game on our last road trip a few weeks ago.

[applegrove]

8. That would have been dangerous as we drove by the dealership. LOL!

[pokerfan]

12. we called it slug bug (nt)

[IcyPeas]

9. usually I-spy with my little eye......

or we would try and make words out of the letters in the license plates in front of us. I still find myself doing that now.

also we would count all the red cars, then the white cars and so on and so on. there used to be more car colors than there are now.

[david13]

13. Oh man, you people are all like the Nelson family or something,

the Brady Bunch? All we did was fight.
dc

[Avalux]

14. Dead Cow game.

Count the cows on YOUR side of the road. If you pass a cemetery, you go back to zero (they all die). The kid with the most cows at the end wins.

[nolabear]

18. Yep, that's the one!

And a white horse counted as ten.

[mzteris]

15. The Alphabet game

Find a sign or car name or car tag that BEGINS with the next letter of the alphabet.

Great for little ones learning their letters.

(psst - it's okay to use "eXit" for "X"... )

For a much more challenging game - find synonyms of words that start with the next letter (e.g. find the word Avenue for the letter "R - oad")

[Broken_Hero]

16. We often played

"Sit down, and shut the fuck up"

My brothers and I were amazingly annoying....

[krispos42]

17. "Mommy, he's on my side of the seat again!"

Cuz a quarter of a millimeter of his pinky was across the stitched seam on the vinyl seat.



Actually, I usually just read a lot.

[janet118]

19. "If you kids don't stop fighting . . .

I'll pull this car over and you can all walk home."

It's sorta like Cash Cab, without the trivia questions or the cash.

[kimi]

20. Alphabet Game

using signs though, not license plates. Also, "How-many-semis-can-we-get-to-honk-at-us-if-we-pantomime-pulling-the-horn-in-our-rear-window?"

[ashling]

21. Alphabet Game

You had to call out the letters (in order) from roadsigns ... and you had to call out the word it was in so nobody else could claim that letter from that word.

[Mopar151]

22. Collecting license plates by state

I think we kept the list in the back of the "Wards Motor Record Book" in our old VW Bug, aka Herman