Kim Duncan said on Facebook that she and her husband play “Slug Bugs”, where they get to punch each other every time one of them sees a Volkswagen Beetle first. There goes at least 20 minutes for one round right there. If they don’t guess it in 20 questions, the answerer chooses another object and the game starts again. Whoever guesses it right becomes the next answerer. The others playing have 20 yes or no questions to ask and figure out what it is. This is where the answerer thinks of a subject or object and doesn’t tell anyone what it is. Susan Oltman, who accompanied me as a chaperone on at least one of those youth trips, wrote on Facebook that she and her husband and daughters played “20 Questions” - a lot. Several other friends on Facebook and Twitter played versions of this game. and pays each kid 25 cents for each state they spot, $1 for Canadian provinces or Mexican states, and $5 for Alaska and Hawaii plates. territories.” Bonus, indeed - there are not many Guam plates on the east got in touch on Twitter with a variation on this game, where he prints a map of the U.S. 95.5 WSB assistant news director Amanda Moyer: “You look for all 50 states and Washington D.C. There are several variations on the license plate game, where players try and ID plates from different places. I decided to pose the question about road trip games to friends on social media and got some good responses. I love getting the chance to answer, “Halifax.” This game is possibly my favorite.Īnother one that I love as a trivia buff is a geography game where the first player names a geographical location and then the next player has to name another one that begins with the last letter of the previous player’s answer. The players cannot use the exact same letter as one another, so this game gets especially challenging on obscure letters and on remote stretches. In this game, players simply try to find a word on a sign that begins with letters a-z, in order. There is the alphabet-sign game, which works best with a group of no more than four or five. My youth leaders and friends taught me some good ones. In my high school years in the 2000s, I learned a couple of road trip games with my Clairmont Presbyterian youth group, as we drove to several places in the southeast in the 2000s. I don’t really know what I did to pass the time, but I don’t remember my brother or me bugging my folks too badly about boredom. Augustine, Florida beach trips in the 1990s. I didn’t play any games in the car on our annual St. Having some games and some polite competition can draw people close together and build some friendly conflict that will make sand fall faster through the hourglass. Add kids into the mix and long vacation commutes require the patience of Job from parents or elders in the front seats.īoredom is not mandatory on road trips, especially if the group in the car can play the right games. That heavy volume can add minutes or even an hour or two to road trips, which already are grueling. The WSB Traffic Team and I see grinding, slow traffic on I-75 in Henry County almost every afternoon and through the weekends, sometimes made worse by crashes like the one I wrote about in the Express Lanes last week. As summer travel season is well underway (here in late spring), many have taken or are planning to take to the roads.
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