teach me some games to play on a long car drive...

I think you’ve got a typographical error in there, flapcats.

Another good memory game for kids:
“I’m going to the moon, and I’m bringing with me… an anemometer.”
next person says:
“I’m going to the moon, and I’m bringing with me … an anemometer and a breviary.”
etc…
At each turn you add a word next in alphabetical order, but you have to repeat all the objects in the list so far.

One game is play is called “Actors” and the players take turns naming two actors, and the other players have to name a film in which they both appeared. Like you could say “Bruce Willis” and “John Travolta” and the answer would be “Pulp Fiction.” This can get sort of tricky, when you think of actors that only had cameo roles, or not very well known roles in movies at the beginning of their career. You can keep score in a variety of ways, with points for being the first to guess, or getting a point if no one can figure out your movie.

Another thing we do that is not a game, persay, because no one keeps score and no one wins, but it tends to create interesting conversations. The first we call the Money Game, and you start with a small amount of money, like $1, and say "If I had $1 to spend right now, I would buy (whatever … a soda, a lottery ticket, etc.) The rules are that the thing in question has to actually be for sale … you can’t buy the Mona Lisa, it’s not for sale. Also, it has to be for yourself – it’s a selfish game, you can’t give your $1 to charity. Everyone in the car says what they would buy, and then you double or triple the amount, or someone names another random amount, or whatever you pick, and go through it again. You have to buy one thing with each amount, you can’t break it up and buy a bunch of things.

I heard this one on the radio yesterday:

Someone sings a line from a song. Any line, any song. The next person has to sing a line from a song (any line, any song) that has at least one of the same words in it. (It’s best to insist on significant words, things like “a” or “the” could get boring.)

Ex.
Person A: There are lilac trees in the heart of town…

Person B: Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame…

Person c: I shot the sheriff…

You can see how this could be fun!

One hundred bottles of beer on the wall. One hundred bottles of beer…

I used to play a drinking game called “Buzz”. You can play it without drinking, though. Any number of people can play. The goal is simply to count from 1 to 100. The first person says “1”, second person says “2”, etc. But you have to follow these rules:

  1. Any time the number you will say has a seven, you have to say “Buzz” instead. Ex: 27, 47, 70, 71…

  2. If your number is divisible by 7 then you also say “Buzz”. Ex: 14, 49, 63…

  3. Failure to say “Buzz” ends the round and you must start over.

  4. You have to go as fast as you can from person to person. Any pause longer than 2 seconds ends the round and you have to start over. Optional rule: everybody gets to slap the person that screwed up in the back of the head.

The game gets rather hard in places, especially at 27, 28 as those are back-to-back “Buzz” numbers. 70 is a “Buzz-Buzz” number as it has a seven and is divisible by seven. 77 is a “Buzz-Buzz-Buzz” number cause it has 2 sevens and is divisible by seven. I have only once seen a group of people get past the 70s without screwing up (of course, they were mostly drunk as well). A friends of mine and I once got up to somwhere in the 90s before I screwed up in the excitement of actually reaching 100 (and I was very drunk).

Here are some more fun verbal drinking games that of course can be played without the alcohol (or substitute water, that ought to be fun on the losers when they need bathroom breaks). I’ve played “Bullshit” before. Very fun game if you can come up with a creative tag (I usually pick Gullshit or Sharkshit).

I made up a game that is a slight twist on the “I’m going on a picnic…” theme. First, you decide on someone that all of you hate, then you say, “I got so pissed at Joe Schmoe the other day that I called him a…” and you go through the alphabet of insults, remembering each one that came before. It is fun to come up with and remember the creative insults.

I played this with my SO for a pretty long time on the phone once, but we stopped on the third time through arguing over whether “fart farmer” was a valid insult.

Correction:

"quote:

Originally posted by flapcats
Film acronym game: …
There’s always ‘EYAWTKASBWATA’

I think you’ve got a typographical error in there, flapcats. "
I mean: EYAWTKAS*BWATA

:slight_smile:

I’m a big fan of the benadryl PM game. but not when i am the driver.

its fun for the whole family.

Tetris (or any other game ) on the game boy or game boy advance :smiley:

Some classics. The first is called Marlon Brando or The Name Game. You start with the first person saying a famous person (e.g. Marlon Brando). The next player must come up with another famous person whose first name begins with the first letter of the famous person’s last name (following B for Brando they might say Bruce Springstein). The next person needs someone with a first name beginning with S. And so on, round and round.

If both words of a name begin with the same letter (e.g. Marilyn Monroe) the order reverses. And if a player can’t think of anyone, or names someone previously thought of, they lose. And must exit the vehicle immediately in shame.

The second is a tricky letter word game, which I think is called Ghosts. This is played as follows:

The first person says a letter, e.g. B

The second player adds a letter either before or after the first letter. The rule is that these letters must be part of a word (occurring consecutively) but cannot complete a word. So adding an E to get BE loses, but making RB or BB or BU would be fine (HERB, HOBBLE, BUST), and BX would probably get you challenged (see below).

The third player then adds a letter according to the same rules, and so on for the fourth etc. A player who completes a word loses the round. However after the second letter, players also have an additional option. If they think the letters presented to them form no real word, they may challenge. If they win the challenge the player who added the last letter loses; if the challenged player can present a word, then the player who did the challenging loses.

Examples (rob, sarah and teri play):
rob: C
sarah: CA
teri: SCA
rob: ESCA
sarah: ESCAP
teri: ESCAPE Duh! teri loses (but what other word could she say?).

rob: D
sarah: DZ
teri: ADZ
rob: challenge
teri: I was thinking of “adze” (medieval woodworking tool). rob loses.

This game obviously depends on your vocabulary, but also has opportunities for bluffing and guessing if others are buffing.

Thirdly, you can do charades with sound effects instead of gestures (speaking actual words is still not allowed, except perhaps to say if it’s a book, film, etc.) For instance “Aaargh! Aaargh! AAARRRRGGGHHHH!”= Scream 3.

Truth or Dare might be another possibility. If you can think of dares that don’t involve the driver closing his eyes.

I guess you don’t want to play anything too raucous for safety reasons, but if you don’t mind crashing you could try a few drinking games, such as the game in which players take turns naming well-known euphemisms for sex. (“sex” is not a euphemism for sex.)