Our road trip alphabet game is that you need to find all the letters in order. License plates billboards signs etc. Q can be hard. Until you get to Quartzite AZ. Or a Quality Inn :). And another we played was car colors. Everyone gets a color and counts the cars. White cars Silver cars. Just for fun green cars
Our version of the alphabet game was the cities game: pick a letter and then everyone try to name a city that begins with that letter. You go around, taking turns, and doing it until someone can't think of any more cities with that letter.
@@tosht2515 Yeah. The difference it sounds like they were just naming one city per letter. My family's version was name as many cities on a given letter as possible. Then move on to another letter.
We would play an Alphabet game where we had to find the letters, in order, somewhere on the road. Once you found and called out the letter, no one else could use that instance. They had to find their own letter while you went on to the next one.
That's the one we played as kids. Usually the longest trip would be to our grandparents and our dad would take the same route every time. Eventually we would memorize where the Quaker State billboard was along that route.
If you're traveling through the midwest, you can play Cows and Graveyards. Left side of the car vs. right side of the car. If you pass cows on your side of the car, you get a point. If you pass a graveyard on your side of the car you lose all your cows(points). Whoever has the most points when you get to your next stop wins. You can also make up variants for different animals you might pass, different point values for various animals, etc. Basically there's no end to the different house rules you can make up.
If ever you’re road tripping in the UK look out for Eddie Stobart lorries (large haulage company). Each one has a unique woman’s name on the drivers cab. Always keeps kids entertained looking out for them and trying to spot the name.
Here in Australia we play cricket using cars and there colours. Translated to baseball it could be each white car is a strike, a blue car is a base hit, red car is 2 base run, a light blue truck a home run and a red truck is batter out. This can be played with licence plates also. And play as a score card reads. Letting the kids pick colours and consequences is always a fun idea
In the UK I've heard about a Dad say to his kids , the first one to see a certain numbered junction on a motorway gets £50 which of course has not been built and the numbers of the motorway junctions carry on.
I've got 2 more for you, one from my school life and one a drinking game we made at Uni that can easily work as a road trip game: The school one was simple - the aim is to go through the alphabet from A to Z and back to A. The twist is that only ONE person can speak ONE letter at a time and anybody else can jump in anytime. If two people speak or a letter is out of order - you must start again. Easy to learn and highly addictive but takes a lot of teamwork and silent communication to master (especially when you can't make eye contact as much). The drinking one we nicknamed "Senseless" - choose a direction to go around and make up a story, one word at a time using that starts with the first letter of your first name (so for a Mike all his words must begin with an M and all of a Sally's words would begin with an S) . No repeat words. No long hesitations and the word must make the sentence make sense. You can also add verbal punctuation to expand these sentences, so a "comma" plus a word to build a list or "full stop" /"period" after a word to end a sentence. Any bad grammar, words that don't begin with that first letter, words that don't make sense or too long thinking results in that person losing the round (where in place of the "drink" the leader for that round can decide a fun forefit or to eliminate them from the game until only a winner remains). If you want to make more challenging or have too many similar names, swap the first letter of your name to a last letter instead!
I love playing the license plate game while just driving around town! Lots of people move here to New Mexico so you’ll always see plates from Minnesota, Illinois, Arizona, Washington, Utah, etc!
alphabet game ( looking for a specific name): you go through the alphabet and your word has to start with your letter and contain the next one. example: me: A and B. ABle friend 1: B and C. BaCk friend 2: C and D. CanDle friend 3: D and E. DarE and so on. then do it backwards (made this game up about 15 minutes ago) to add a twist, the amount of letters per word is the amount of points. more points = victory
Our alphabet game is where you have to go in order and find words in signs or car names that start with the letter you are on and first one through the alphabet wins
Speaking of "brain usage-y" heres an adult game we have played dozens of times, Mark. ABC G.O.A.T - greatest of all time in music, acting, literature, science... *_Music GOAT_* - Someone might open with ABBA. Not bad. Next person proposes Aerosmith. Well. OK. Third person delivers Aretha Franklin. Boom. There has to be a consensus to move on and since we don't keep score it works out fine. Aretha can be used only once so not eligible for F by the way. On to B. Barbra Streisand. Lots of hits every decade, movies, stage. Solid. Of course (The) Beatles. Feeling confident. And then someone says Beethoven. *_Michael Jordan_* vs Joe Montana vs Muhammad Ali is ridiculously tough. Anyway it inspires interesting discussion and debate; very enjoyable exercise.
Our friends taught us a game, maybe it's like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you name two actors and you have to link them together so you would say The Rock and Kristen Wiig. You would say the rock was in fast and furious with vin diesel who was in iron giant with Jennifer Aniston who was in along came Polly with Ben Stiller who was in Walter Mitty with Kristen Wiig. It's a really good game, and to hear how different people get the same answer (I'm terrible at it!!) It can pass loads of time!
C for Kumquat hahaha easy mistake to make ;)
Last time I drove across the US I solved one of the difficult license plate problems by driving the Alaskan vehicle.
#lifehack :)
Thank you! Taking a road trip with 7&8 year old this weekend, great ideas
Have fun!
Even though at the time of writing I'm in my mid-20's, me and my parents play the alphabet game both in the car and on walks 🙂
Mark and I probably play more competitively than the boys😆
@@WoltersWorldEats Cool! 😛 x
Who agrees that roadtrip games are a necessity! So much more fun than technology! 😀😀🚙🚙🏕️
Our kids definitely love i spy!
I agree
Our road trip alphabet game is that you need to find all the letters in order. License plates billboards signs etc. Q can be hard. Until you get to Quartzite AZ. Or a Quality Inn :). And another we played was car colors. Everyone gets a color and counts the cars. White cars Silver cars. Just for fun green cars
Thats cool
In 2018 I saw all 50 license plates in 7 western states alone!
Mark - these are some great ones but I have to tell you, we laughed out loud when you used kumquat for “C” 🤣.
yeah...i needed to think through that one a bit more ;)
I wish I could visit all 50 states in America someday 🤞
Our version of the alphabet game was the cities game: pick a letter and then everyone try to name a city that begins with that letter. You go around, taking turns, and doing it until someone can't think of any more cities with that letter.
@Chris J. Did you make it to the 2:05 minute mark of the video? 😀
@@tosht2515 Yeah. The difference it sounds like they were just naming one city per letter. My family's version was name as many cities on a given letter as possible. Then move on to another letter.
@Chris J. Ah. My bad. For some reason I skipped over the "any more cities with that letter" part. I love your game! 👍
Would be fun as a passenger.
We did the New York to Yellowstone road trip 3 years ago, what a beautiful country we have I am jealous watching this
We would play an Alphabet game where we had to find the letters, in order, somewhere on the road. Once you found and called out the letter, no one else could use that instance. They had to find their own letter while you went on to the next one.
That's the one we played as kids. Usually the longest trip would be to our grandparents and our dad would take the same route every time. Eventually we would memorize where the Quaker State billboard was along that route.
Yes, same here!
Watching in Brasil 🇧🇷👍🏽
Ola!
If you're traveling through the midwest, you can play Cows and Graveyards. Left side of the car vs. right side of the car. If you pass cows on your side of the car, you get a point. If you pass a graveyard on your side of the car you lose all your cows(points). Whoever has the most points when you get to your next stop wins. You can also make up variants for different animals you might pass, different point values for various animals, etc. Basically there's no end to the different house rules you can make up.
If ever you’re road tripping in the UK look out for Eddie Stobart lorries (large haulage company). Each one has a unique woman’s name on the drivers cab. Always keeps kids entertained looking out for them and trying to spot the name.
Here in Australia we play cricket using cars and there colours. Translated to baseball it could be each white car is a strike, a blue car is a base hit, red car is 2 base run, a light blue truck a home run and a red truck is batter out. This can be played with licence plates also. And play as a score card reads. Letting the kids pick colours and consequences is always a fun idea
Another great video 📹👏👍
Looks like you guys are having fun 👍👍
We did
I play the license plate game all the time as it’s a good mental acuity test
Kumquat...lol, doesn’t quite work for “C” , but like the game suggestions. Will try some on our next road trip. Thanks!
Yeah... I was just trying to come up with something kn the spot. Obviously English was my worst subject in school
When
I'm on a road trip with my son we count trucks from different, selected trucking compamies like Knight, Swift, J. B. Hunt, Schneider and so on.
Fun Video!!
thanks Brian
Great vid!!
In the UK I've heard about a Dad say to his kids , the first one to see a certain numbered junction on a motorway gets £50 which of course has not been built and the numbers of the motorway junctions carry on.
I love audio books when we travel. My husband doesn't like to read, but will always ask what book, or books, we're going to listen to on the trip.
Once upon a time there was a UA-camr named Mark and he made awesome travel videos! 😁
Too bad he is gone now and replaced with this husk of a man
@@woltersworld ☹️
I've got 2 more for you, one from my school life and one a drinking game we made at Uni that can easily work as a road trip game:
The school one was simple - the aim is to go through the alphabet from A to Z and back to A. The twist is that only ONE person can speak ONE letter at a time and anybody else can jump in anytime. If two people speak or a letter is out of order - you must start again. Easy to learn and highly addictive but takes a lot of teamwork and silent communication to master (especially when you can't make eye contact as much).
The drinking one we nicknamed "Senseless" - choose a direction to go around and make up a story, one word at a time using that starts with the first letter of your first name (so for a Mike all his words must begin with an M and all of a Sally's words would begin with an S) . No repeat words. No long hesitations and the word must make the sentence make sense. You can also add verbal punctuation to expand these sentences, so a "comma" plus a word to build a list or "full stop" /"period" after a word to end a sentence. Any bad grammar, words that don't begin with that first letter, words that don't make sense or too long thinking results in that person losing the round (where in place of the "drink" the leader for that round can decide a fun forefit or to eliminate them from the game until only a winner remains). If you want to make more challenging or have too many similar names, swap the first letter of your name to a last letter instead!
fun!
I love playing the license plate game while just driving around town! Lots of people move here to New Mexico so you’ll always see plates from Minnesota, Illinois, Arizona, Washington, Utah, etc!
You have to see a ton :)
alphabet game ( looking for a specific name):
you go through the alphabet and your word has to start with your letter and contain the next one.
example:
me: A and B. ABle
friend 1: B and C. BaCk
friend 2: C and D. CanDle
friend 3: D and E. DarE
and so on.
then do it backwards
(made this game up about 15 minutes ago)
to add a twist, the amount of letters per word is the amount of points. more points = victory
Love the license plate game! On our road trip from the Midwest to the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier and back, we got all but Delaware..
Played most of those with the kids when they were young. Our version of alphabet game was using road signs. And and counting trucks was fun.
My personal favourite is the guess which time will we get there game as in guess the time
You’re such a fun dad!
For a town beginning with X, there is a small place in North-West Germany near the Dutch boarder called Xanten!
Boom!!! Roger with the game saver for the second round!!
Or Xenia, a city in Ohio...
We all know your sibling will just play fort nite on the switch off your hotspot 😂
true dat!
I know you put yourself on the spot when thinking of a food item for C Mark, but I believe kumquat is spelt with a K 😛Great video though! 😁
Yeah... spelling was my worst subject in school
@@woltersworld Maths (or Math as you call it) was mine ☹️
I wish somebody would tell me about those games when my kids were small👍😉
Love ur vids, you keep me from being bored, thanks
I also love 20 Questions! 😁
20 Questions is good, but not if people are asked them at a police station 😉
Our alphabet game is where you have to go in order and find words in signs or car names that start with the letter you are on and first one through the alphabet wins
It be good to do a game of things from a different place
Have a Nice tour 👍🏻🇨🇳
Thank you
The 50 States song is great btw 😁
Unless yoir kid sings it 20 times in a row
@@woltersworld *your 😛
Wish I could visit all 50 states
Heres a good one: So its like the alphabet game but it can only be with things like road signs and signs on cars and trucks, etc.
I like that one
I don't even though what a supernova is hehe
Our alphabet game sort of combines "I spy" - each person has to find their letter on a sign, car, license, etc.
100th like :)
Forehead detective!
K, kumquat.
Slug bug.
Speaking of "brain usage-y" heres an adult game we have played dozens of times, Mark. ABC G.O.A.T - greatest of all time in music, acting, literature, science...
*_Music GOAT_* - Someone might open with ABBA. Not bad. Next person proposes Aerosmith. Well. OK. Third person delivers Aretha Franklin. Boom. There has to be a consensus to move on and since we don't keep score it works out fine. Aretha can be used only once so not eligible for F by the way. On to B. Barbra Streisand. Lots of hits every decade, movies, stage. Solid. Of course (The) Beatles. Feeling confident. And then someone says Beethoven.
*_Michael Jordan_* vs Joe Montana vs Muhammad Ali is ridiculously tough.
Anyway it inspires interesting discussion and debate; very enjoyable exercise.
i like that one. thanks Tosh! and apologies for my spelling :)
Well there shouldn't be any problem finding the best artist for the letter Q: Queen!
@Bill Green Queen is in my top three all time favorites, Bill but due to overall influence Quincy Jones is a good argument.
@Professor Wolters 🤔 Did you have a spelling situation here, Mark?
@@tosht2515 Yes, we can't leave out Quincy!
IT IS PRONOUNCED ILLINOI NOT ILLINOIS BUT IT IS SPELT ILLINOIS
You forgot Quebec for Q.
see you would do well my friend :)
Our friends taught us a game, maybe it's like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you name two actors and you have to link them together so you would say The Rock and Kristen Wiig. You would say the rock was in fast and furious with vin diesel who was in iron giant with Jennifer Aniston who was in along came Polly with Ben Stiller who was in Walter Mitty with Kristen Wiig. It's a really good game, and to hear how different people get the same answer (I'm terrible at it!!) It can pass loads of time!
i like it! thanks!