What are the most fun road trip games and conversations that you have experienced?
I will be driving 8 hours each way on my upcoming vacation. I was wondering if anyone had any great road games or discussions that they roll out on the annual vacation. The ones we played when I was a kid were pretty lame (“I told you kids to shut up and sleep” was my favorite).
Feel free to make up new stuff. Maybe I’ll try it and let you know how it works out.
License plate bingo is a favorite of mine.
We played a game we called “Three Thirds of a Ghost”, which went like this. Choose the order you’re going to go in. The person who goes first says any letter of the alphabet. The next person says another letter, but it must be a letter that, when strung together with the first one, has the possibility of forming a common English word. Then the next person adds a letter, and so on.
The object is to NOT be the person who provides the final letter of a word. Set your own rules as to the shortest word allowable (we usually played that 2-letter words didn’t count, but sometimes bumped it up to 3-letter words, making 4-letter words the shortest word that could get you 1/3 of a ghost). If you provide that last letter of a word, you become 1/3 of a ghost. Do that 3 times, and you’re now 3/3 of a ghost, or, a whole ghost, which means you float away and out of the game. The last person “standing” wins, of course.
It can be a fun challenge to think up words with enough letters to fall on an opponent, IF your opponents are forced to follow the pattern you’ve led the word in. But sometimes they outsmart you and can think of a word that you hadn’t, that will fall on you or someone else.
The other game we played was the “Dictionary Game”. We’d bring a dictionary along and each player had to find a common or at least well-known English word that their opponents might have a chance of guessing (totally obscure or scientific words, for example, were out of bounds). Then they’d start reading one definition at a time, usually starting with the least-used of the definitions for that word, but in no particular order. The object is to stump your opponents so that no one has guessed the word after all the definitions have been read. If someone does guess the word, they get the point and the dictionary passes to them to pick a word. The best words are the ones with the most definitions, like “run”.
Have Fun!
I Love my Lover! Requires more than one person, unfortunately.
First person starts out “I love my lover because he’s/she’s ambitious/artistic/something-beginning with A”, second person has to repeat that line and then add their own with a B, and so on and so on. Goes through the whole alphabet with each person having to recite all previous characteristics before theirs. Most fun with a car full of people, but can work with just two as well. After you’ve gone through it once, you can do it backwards, starting with Z! Or, you can do an all-dirty version!
Yes, I have taken many long car trips.
The Geography Game
First player names a country (city, state, river, lake, continent, whatever). Next person names a country which begins with the last letter of the previously named country (etc.) Continue until bored, unable to think of anymore unique place names with the appropriate letters, or your trip ends.
Example:
America
Austrailia
Austria
Africa
Athens
South Carolina
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Amherst
Tokyo
Ontario
Oregon
Nebraska
Since every time i have been on a road trip there is lots of drinking going on drinking games can be a lot of fun.
Anther one thats a lot of fun to play is “Fuck/Kill/Marry”. Someone would name 3 peolple, could be famous people or people they know. Then everyone has to answer which one of the 3 they could marry, fuck & kill. But only 1 person of the 3 named u could marry, u could only fuck 1 & only kill one. And there was no exceptions to the rules.
Then you had to explain while you answered like you did. Its always a good laugh when people get really carried away with the people they name.
I can tell you a not fun one: “why don’t you like my boyfriend.” Believe me, a three hour car trip, and and little honesty in response to that question spells the end of a friendship. 
Personally, I’m partial to “I spy” but that’s best played with a car full of people.
Dungeons and Dragons. Bring dice cups and make sure the DM sits in the back.
The Hazardous Cargo game (only to be played when you see one of the HC signs)
1st person names something that could possibly be considered too dangerous to go on the roads through cities. It gets pretty absurd, and debating the hazard-osity is most of the fun.
Ex:
Arsenic
Bombs
Cyanide
Dynamite
etc.