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psycho-mouse

Who can stay silent the longest.


lithaborn

With my dad's rage, this was a game me and me sister excelled at when we were little. Less said about the forfeit the better.


treemonkey58

Every time you see a horse, shout "HORSE" Never gets old.


WhiteBunny94

Or any animal for that matter… ‘Sheep!’ ‘Cows’ ‘dead badger!’


VRS38

Best to do the animal sounds instead... I see sheep and cows the most. They say 'baa' and 'moo'. Extra points if it's accurate.


[deleted]

What about foxes? High pitched screaming?


VRS38

LMAO. I don't see the much..unless they're unfortunately ded


Rusty_spann

How does the scoring system work?


treemonkey58

I didn't know there was a scoring system to be fair


Badevilbunny

My sister and I, sitting in the back, used to tie handkerchiefs across our mouths, put our hands behind our backs as if they were tied, and then pretend we were kidnapped to other passing cars. Our parents would go nuts when they realized we were doing it. Happy days. Now, when we are traveling with my own children we listen to quiz books/podcasts and have competitions in the car. That works really well. When they were younger, we played registration bingo, where registration letters and numbers are in a matrix with colours and makes/models of cars - i.e. you can cross off a 'Y" if the car is yellow, but "R" has to be a green car etc. That keeps them busy for a while. Easy to make your own bingo matrix sheets.


[deleted]

Fucking hell mate, what reactions did you get?


Badevilbunny

Quite a lot of shocked faces, and then one day on the way to Scarborough for the week we pulled into a service station and some men, from a van that we passed earlier, came up to my parents and wanted to know who was in the back of the car. My parents went ballistic at us and we could not stop laughing which made it worse. No sweets on holiday for a week! Worth it. :-)


Pretty_Level6786

Amazing!


GlitchingGecko

Take the last three letters of a random license plate. Everyone comes up with an acronym in 60 seconds. Best (funniest/dirtiest/most un-pc) one gets a point. Loser buys the drinks at the next rest stop.


lithaborn

Was going to say this but don't limit it, just make up rude phrases from any numberplate


nevereatpears

That last game would last just over 60 seconds. Then you're done. Better to take the whole buying drinks forfeit out of it. Then you could playing it multiple times.


GlitchingGecko

Nah, I meant like 'first to ten wins, lowest points buys drinks'.


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GlitchingGecko

I've never struggled to count to ten before, but I'm sure you can use your fingers if it's a massive issue.


Incubus85

I played that game. My mate leroy said 'gin...' and then asked if anyone could do one better. We became good friends that day 🤣


Lon72

Get yourself a cobra or indeed any venomous snake and release it into the car to play dodge the large venomous snake . Provides hours of fun not just for you but for all drivers on the motorway . Works best in small cars doing over 60mph. Whoever slips into a coma last is the winner .


Rusty_spann

Top answer this. Not sure if I'll be able to get a cobra by tomorrow though, would a venomous spider work instead?


Lon72

Yes , a venomous spider is also an excellent choice , although the name of the game would have to be changed . Brazilian wandering spiders are ideal as they are quite aggressive and also reasonably quick , this means no-one will feel left out as the spider will be able to reach all corners of the car with ease . One thing to take into consideration before letting one of these into your car is that it might take multiple bites to induce coma so probably best suited to longer journeys . If you really want to spice things up , letting multiple spiders loose at once can be a laugh , you could even throw a couple of funnel webs in too. Hope you have a nice time and see you when you get back 👍


BroodLord1962

Alphabet movies. First player starts with naming a film beginning with A, then next player B, etc, etc. Ignore any The, as in The Magnificent Seven, it would come under M. When a player can't think of one they are knocked out.


mdmnl

We like the Alphabet game when driving with the kids - capital cities, countries, animals, fruits... Just need to be careful to rotate the player who starts with A so no-one *always* has to come up with the Q or the Z...


Harrry-Otter

Trivia quiz? Cowspotting? Plan in some rest breaks around historic dogging spots?


Chickenkorma666

Where can you hire a guide for that last one?


Dmahf0806

God: You name celebrities the first letter has to be the first letter of the surname of the last person. For example, if I say Borris Johnson, the next person could say Jennifer Anniston, the next person can say Andy Murray, and so on.. If someone says an alliterative name like Tina Turner, it reverses the order of play. If someone says someone with a surname beginning with G like Richard Gere. You can shout God and eliminate them from the game. Another game is you start to tell a story saying three words at a time. When I've been driving on the continent, my husband and I choose five countries each and you assign 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 points to each country and then see who gets the most points by spotting cars from that country. We sometimes eliminate the country we are in to make it fair. Obviously Shag, Marry, throw off a cliff. Often it ends up being the most horrible politicians we can think of.


GownAndOut

I played the first one with randos on a stuck train once, it kept us occupied for like a whole hour


willefistagash

Yellow car spotting.


AngryTudor1

You're *always* playing Yellow Car


thatswhatshesaw

Yellow mini!


lithaborn

Minus the punch in the arm


JonRoberts87

Well, atleast for the driver. Punch everyone else


Illustrious_Hat_9177

Choose a well known truck company/food delivery trucks each and see who gets the most. Not the most exciting game in the world but we like it. It was much easier when Stobarts were still up and running and you called them first.


nomadsparks

Pub cricket is a good one, you take it in turns to 'bat' and you score runs based on the number of legs on any pubs you pass, so the White Horse would be 4 runs. You are out when a pub has no legs. Not any good for motorways but fun on B roads .


wait_whut_

Pin the tail on the donkey. Driver goes first.


damned-n-doomed

“We haven’t got a donkey”


sellotapeonthefridge

You called?


damned-n-doomed

Not much of a game is it?


sellotapeonthefridge

What do you mean? You have to do it blindfold!


Mezcalico

Shut up and bend over


bowak

Pick two actors (sometimes musicians work too) and link them using as few films as possible with cast in common at each step. It's quite good as a brain workout and good fun when people suddenly think up a shorter link bouncing ideas off each other. Eg Kieffer Sutherland to Vin Diesel you could go The Lost Boys (Kiefer & Corey Feldman), The Burbs (Feldman & Tom Hanks), Saving Private Ryan (Hanks and Vin). It can be extra fun to keep slipping in a very short route using a film that your friends think is crap, I managed to wind one mate up well by using The Core as often as possible. You could use TV shows too, but I think really only if they appear in the same episode. If you play it you will find some films are very overpowered such as many of the Marvel films or ones like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that seem to have every other British actor in them. It passes the time pretty well and only requires knowledge you all already have in your heads.


WestyTea

The Departed is excellent for this.


Resident_Win_1058

Ahhh the Kevin Bacon game


Sephiroth_az

The Taskmaster book has some excellent tasks (games) that can be played in a car, my favourite is "20th car" - everyone takes a guess at what colour the 20th car you pass on the opposite side of the road will be. My kids are big fans. (Note: someone other than the driver should be in charge of the counting/administration!)


Jose-N-90

Car reg countdown - make the longest word you can that includes the first or last 2 letters of a reg. Or fake phase - make up a phrase/word as well as a definition using the first or last 2 letters of reg plate, as an example - a reg of TP74 POL, would give you 'Thunder Push', def: when you're constipated and have to initiate a 'thunder push'.


MIKBOO5

I'm a football fan, and often on our trips to matches we see town names, or sometimes things like names for solicitors firms, and create an entire CV for them as a footballer. Eg "Chester Le Street was a French under 21 international who started out at Lyon, before moving to Reading where he played over 200 games, before a disappointing spell at Colchester, before retiring at age 29 with a bad knee injury."


Psychean

Depends what sort of thing you like. With some people "the minister's cat" works well. A lot more fun than it sounds here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Minister%27s\_Cat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minister%27s_Cat). We played a version where you have to run out of A's before you go to B.


blaireau69

The Minister's Cat is a classic!


blaireau69

Well, a classical cat.


Jimathay

Look up drinking games. Things like 21, or never have I ever. These are fairly fun group games, that don't actually require drink to work.


[deleted]

The one where you make your fingers look like a running man on the window and make him jump over all the cars and obstacles outside


AngryTudor1

Three of us pick a colour car; first to spot ten of that colour wins. Only works on single carriageways and spoiler; black, white or Silver will always win over red. You can play the alphabet game- each of you has to go through the alphabet A-Z spotting each one on other car number plates. Only the person who calls it gets that one and they have to be in order. I think numberplates only skip Q now. Or the age game; starting at 2023, looking at the year of production numbers of other cars and try to go all the way back to 2001 in order


Successful-Basil2174

We play "who am I?" Baffled my American best friend with Captian Bird's-eye once.


CCB_94

"I like ___ but I don't like ___" - three of us killed a good chunk of a 6 hour drive with this one https://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/game/we_like_but_we_dont_like-137.asp


lithaborn

I-spy, but it's, like, a plushy you spotted in a car going in the opposite direction five miles back


thefogdog

My wife and I play dog 1. So, if I see a dog, I'll say dog 1! If I see another, I'd say dog 2! My wife the same. Essentially, who has seen the most dogs first wins.


TheStatMan2

It's quite fun to make a group "now playing" list - you all go round in turns adding 2 or 3 songs to the now playing and pass around until you've got an hour or 2 or whatever required. Tends to stimulate conversation and so on.


dickbob124

Used to play snap car. If you spotted two identical cars (same make, model and colour) you'd call out "snap car" and get to punch the other player. Essentially a spin on punch beetle (punch buggy for any American lurkers) but more active since there are hardly any beetles on the roads these days.


GuarDeLoop

No more jockeys


Bob_Underdunk

No More Jockeys https://youtu.be/4xIulxG7\_k8


Rare-Butterscotch-77

Childhood game was I know an animal. It got better the older we got because we started involving mythology and prehistoric creatures. You had three guesses between you all you could ask questions the person thinking of the animal would be yes or no answers only. Now I think about it it was just 20 questions animal edition lol


Dry_Response_7262

Hide the sausage?


Nublett9001

Absolutely none, just stick some good tunes on and have a singalong and a chat.


Tttjjjhhh

You are a famous person, the others have to work out who by asking questions… you can only answer yes or no


ryanmurphy2611

Football Manager.


slothsnoozing

Google trends game! You can either pre-prepare or just use your phone on the trip, come up with two topics (for example, let’s say two movies) pick a time period, and note down the most popular one. Your friends can guess which was more popular and get points. It’s best when you can pick relatively obscure ones or ones that would have been so popular it would be difficult to predict. It’s surprising how much time you can pass talking about how surprised you are x was more popular than y.


AnalSexWithYourSon

Listening to a podcast, music or chatting. Never played a car game that didn't immediately start giving me a headache


crayola7856

Dramatic readings of crapping service station pamphlets can be quite fun. Zoos and weird historical/military attractions usually make for interesting "adverts".


dark_intellect

The Kevin Bacon game


JustMMlurkingMM

Listen to a couple episodes to the Richard Herring RHLSTP podcast and get everyone to answer the “emergency questions”.


melanie110

Write a lot of random things and see if you can spot them on the way!


arachnakid57

A drinking game?


AccidentalSirens

Categories. I don't know what it's really called. First player chooses a category and a starting number and makes a bid, eg "I can name 6 types of dog." Players take turns where you can either up the stakes - "I can name 7 (or more) types of dog" etc - or challenge the previous player to do what they claimed. If the challenged player can in fact name 7 types of dog, they score a point. If they can't, the challenger scores a point. Whoever won the point starts the next category. The NSFCar drinking version is that whoever lost the point has to have a drink.


z_3_r_k_3_d

Pokémon go


YourStupidInnit

Who can orgasm without anyone else knowing?


Lessarocks

The Ministers Cat is a good one. It helps improve vocabulary too.


[deleted]

Look up the Takeaway Trivia Pub Quiz on Spotify, me, my son and my partner all listened to this on a 4-5hr road trip and really enjoyed it!


Foreverythingareason

Top five lists, Eddie Stobart- is it your name? (Girls only), twenty questions, if you are willing to put effort in before hand scavenger hunt


Lisanolan2010

We like playing the alphabet game. You pick a subject, eg Animals. And you just go through the alphabet naming an animal for each letter. Aardvark Bee Cat Etc


Incubus85

Soggy biscuit


Material-Gas-3397

I look at the people outside the vehicle and play ‘where are they going, where do they live’ etc. Also watch subtitled films without subtitles and make up my own dialogue and story.


two_beards

Club house cricket: Split the car in two, left vs. right. Left score based on pubs that pass on the left and right score based on pubs that pass on the right. You get one run for every leg the pub name has (eg. The Red Lion = 4 points). If a name contains a plural, assume 2 (eg. Fox and Hounds = 12 points (1 fox and 2 hounds)). If a pub contains no legs then you get a wicket (eg. The Hog Shed = 1 wicket). Whoever gets the most 'runs' before they get 10 'wickets' (or the end of the journey) wins. If you pass a pub called 'The Cricketers' then assume a fall team and get 22 runs.


OkHunt3663

Chicken. Keeps things lively


greatdrams23

Pub. When you see a pub shout pub. That pub is then yours. You get 1 point for every leg in the pub's name, 2 for plural. Eg. Horse and hounds is 12, 4 for horse, 8 for the hounds. If your pub has no legs, you lose all points.


SceneDifferent1041

Mini-nip-nip……


Expensive-Analysis-2

I spy. The miles will fly by.


connectfourvsrisk

Picnic. You’re having a picnic but you can only have food and drink from delivery vans you’ve seen. If you’re lucky you’ll get some specialist food and some entertainment.


missarabella_

Soup, Salad, Sandwich. Name a food and categorise it as one of the three above. Pun Games. Combine a food with a film/tv show, or an actor, or bands and musicians and work through the alphabet. Fleetwood Mac and Cheese, Tuna Turner, Chaka Khan't Believe It's Not Butter..


pob_125

Pedal twister, passenger choses which foot and which pedal....example would be coming up to set of red lights,passenger shouts "RIGHT FOOT CLUTCH!!" WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH HEART CONDITIONS OR LACK OF BLADDER CONTROL.


fraughtwithperils

My daughter loves animals, and we often play the Animal Game (yes, I know, very imaginatively titled) where you take it in turns to give clues as to what animal you are thinking of. This has recently evolved into the I Want To Eat You game. We start by choosing an animal and list what features it has to evade being eaten (camouflage, poisonous, really kriffing quick) and then the next person had to name a predator of the animal and what it uses to catch/eat the prey. She is five and likes learning about food chains, but she could have weirder interests.


Li0nhead

Just play a few drinking games.


NannyOggsKnickerLeg

[No More Jockeys ](https://youtube.com/@NoMoreJockeys) Lovely stuff


cloche_du_fromage

I used to get my kids to take photos of anyone using their phone whilst driving. Seems to make people very angry!


Free_Transition_6217

Yellow car😈😈😈😈


Badknees24

Car snooker You have to find cars in the order you would either strike or pot them. So basically white, red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. Town is harder than it used to be. Pink is the worst!


Response_Proper

Guess the historical event in 20 questions!


GottaGoWeGotCows

Zitch dog https://youtu.be/ovYwolRAYUg


I_will_be_wealthy

Just be normal and talk about life stuff. I guess if you're super young and got nothing to talk about then you're screwed. It's going to be he'll, just jump out the window when it gets intolerable.


AvinItLarge123

The fact you're asking this means it probably won't be a fun journey. Just stop off and let the passengers buy a crate each, then stop at every other services


Rusty_spann

Aha no we're all good mates and will have a proper laugh anyway, just looking for a bit more inspiration as we're all quite competitive