Games to play in the car

[Genie]

For those that have young children you may find this amusing. Other may have already played this game but for me it's a new one, one that is slightly addictive.

It's called "Spotle"

It's all in the number plate.....when you see and old style black with white writing numberplate it's a "spotle".

As these plates are not that common it's an interesting game. My children are loving it and it's making going out in the car that little bit more interesting.

Spotle on a car - 1 point

Spotle on a trailer - 2 points

Spotle on a motorbike - 3 points

So far have only seen one motorbike in the last three weeks. They've started to work out that you only find them on older cars and they are harder to see in the dark.

Very entertaining.

[Cayman911]

I like to play spot the Ferrari :)

[MSTRS]

We played the A to Z of NZ towns, then countries of the world etc
Youngest to oldest A = Auckland, Ashburton, Albany, etc
Then B words
And so on.
Good for their general knowledge too...

[Trudes]

That's an awesome game!! :niceone: I'll have to remember that one.
We used to play "Horse" where you spot a horse and first one to yell "Horse" gets a point..... my brother, sister and I knew where all the horses on SH2 between Gisborne and Wairoa lived!
We also played "Possum".... spot the road kill, 1 point for a possum, 1 point for a rabbit or hare, 1 point for a bird unless it was a hawk or something native like a Pukeko when it was 2 points and 5 for a dead cat/dog/horse/cow/sheep/human.
We also picked car colours..... whoever picked white would normally win, even when you disallowed cream.
Oh fun and games on road trips, now everyone has their own personal entertainment.

[munster]

Geez, all my kids play is 'yellow car', first one to see it and yell it out gets to punch whoever they want.

[Gremlin]

Something I do on the long endurance rides to keep my mind active (and test how active and responsive it still is) is to take all the digits of an approaching plate and add together (also tests your reactions to get all the numbers, and remember). If it adds to more than 10, add those digits together, to eventually get a number between 1 and 9.

There its just pure interest to see which number occurs the most frequently. Then test how fast you can do it, and try to do as many cars as possible in a line.

[slofox]

When my son was about seven, not long after combination letter and numeral rego plates came out, he and I started a plate spotting notebook. We noted every letter combination down and we had to spot one example of each letter combo. So we need one AA ****, one AB **** plate etc etc all the way through to ZZ. We recorded each find in the notebook. The rules were we had to get the numerals, the make and colour of each car. This took a fair amount of time to complete. Before it was finished he had grown up, moved to Wales, got married and had two kids.

A couple of years ago, just as we moved to triple letter plates, I completed the book - I had carried it on for all those years. Once I had it complete, I sent it to him to remind him of the task we set out to complete all those years ago.

It took about thirty years, give or take a few. Longest bloody game I ever played...

[Edbear]

Along with "I Spy" and a few other games there were a number of games you could play with number plates, also makes/models/colours. Looking for weird drivers, etc.

Now with just the two of us most of the time, it's harder to come up with things to do on long trips. Spotting personalised plates, nice cars, complaining about idiot drivers. After nearly 33 years of marriage, I'd be interested in some ideas for us "mature" folk! :yes:

[MadDuck]

Going in to the city two days this week (as a passenger in a car) I decided to play "spot the driver texting or talking on their cellphone". Conversation between work mates goes dry about Oteha Valley Road.

Very interesting results I must say :shit:

[Smifffy]

When I was younger I used to drive around in my car looking for partners to play hide the sausage. :love: :innocent:

[Maha]

If you fart silently, say ''can anyone smell smoke''? :shifty:

[BAD DAD]

maybe try to teach the kids how not to play SIDSY when amoungst lane spiltters

[Headbanger]

We play "Shut the hell up or you're getting a thick ear"

And " Settle the hell down or we are turning round and going back home,and when we get there you're going to your room for a month"

and " You leave your damn brother alone or when we get there you are staying in the car while the rest of us "insert applicable activity here"


The kids love it.

[Headbanger]

And my personal favourite..

"Jesus fuckin Christ, Look how mad you have made your mother, now we are all going to suffer"

[WRT]

Goat, Boat, Float . . .

First to spot all three wins. Keep an eye out even for ones you've already ticked off, as if your first to spot another then you "block" the others from getting it.

A Float can a horse trailer or something that is actually floating. Try getting two at once; a boat on the water is both Boat and a Float. You can also spot the actual item, or a picture, or the word (ie; "Goat Road").

A boat that's afloat with a goat at the wheel; that, my friends, would be the Holy Grail.

[mashman]

Are there enough pubs to play pub cricket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_cricket)?

Our rules where any limb counted as a run and heads were out, with the Queens legs getting a 6 (Queen = 2 arms and 2 legs, plus 2 for legs).

[MIXONE]

The best game ever (for a while) was to get both boys to shut up.The first one that made any noise lost and the winner got a dollar.Worked for many a trip until they twigged getting together and having turns at making noise earned them both a pretty penny by destination.

[XxKiTtiExX]

We play mini punch. First person to see a mini says "mini punch" and gets to punch the person next to them.

Was fun up until my brother saw one before I did :angry:

[Trudes]

We play "Shut the hell up or you're getting a thick ear"

And " Settle the hell down or we are turning round and going back home,and when we get there you're going to your room for a month"

and " You leave your damn brother alone or when we get there you are staying in the car while the rest of us "insert applicable activity here"


The kids love it.

Love it!
Very similar to one we had, "Shut the hell up/stop bloody fighting or I'll stop the car and you'll be bloody walking, don't think I wont!".

[hellokitty]

Love it!
Very similar to one we had, "Shut the hell up/stop bloody fighting or I'll stop the car and you'll be bloody walking, don't think I wont!".

We used to play that game when I was a kid - one time my Mum had enough so kicked us out of the car about 2 minutes walk away from home. We decided to go to a mates house and by the time we did get home she was so upset and freaked out - she thought we had been taken by a pedophile or something.....

Another one was "I will bang your heads together if you don't stop fighting with each other" - that was fun until she actually banged our heads together........ hurts a lot :shutup:

[Genie]

We used to play that game when I was a kid - one time my Mum had enough so kicked us out of the car about 2 minutes walk away from home. We decided to go to a mates house and by the time we did get home she was so upset and freaked out - she thought we had been taken by a pedophile or something.....

Another one was "I will bang your heads together if you don't stop fighting with each other" - that was fun until she actually banged our heads together........ hurts a lot :shutup:

I remember my parents threathening to kick my brother and I out ...never did though. Me, I kick my children out frequently...I make them run!!! I drive slowly behind them until they're puffed out and have no energy left to fight. Has been so good for them that young Hayden won school cross country, went to interschools and then on the regionals!! He just loves to run, gets the biggest grin on his face....so adorable.

[MSTRS]

We put one of ours out, after many warnings. Told him he was walking, and which way to go to get home. Drove a few hundred metres down the road and stopped to wait for him. Little shit stood where he was and stuck his thumb out...

[Genie]

We put one of ours out, after many warnings. Told him he was walking, and which way to go to get home. Drove a few hundred metres down the road and stopped to wait for him. Little shit stood where he was and stuck his thumb out...

Clever lttle shit!! :shit: He'll go far in life.:yes:

[slofox]

When I was younger I used to drive around in my car looking for partners to play hide the sausage. :love: :innocent:

I still play that - but usually on the bike now...bike works better - until I take off the helmet...:whistle:

[PrincessBandit]

We used to make up names from the old 2-letter rego plates, we used to also count the number of different types of trucks on the road (Kenworths, Hinos etc.)

When i was particularly bored I used to count telegraph poles......how sad is that.

[Genie]

Just been out and playing the new family game....and it got me thinking....does anyone out there know what year the stopped making the black with white writing number plates????

[Maha]

Pull my finger always got a reaction :shifty:

[hellokitty]

Pull my finger always got a reaction :shifty:

hahahahaha a friend got me a plastic finger that you pull and it makes fart sounds

[hellokitty]

I remember my parents threathening to kick my brother and I out ...never did though. Me, I kick my children out frequently...I make them run!!! I drive slowly behind them until they're puffed out and have no energy left to fight. Has been so good for them that young Hayden won school cross country, went to interschools and then on the regionals!! He just loves to run, gets the biggest grin on his face....so adorable.

Good idea! must try that with the step-kids

[Pussy]

Just been out and playing the new family game....and it got me thinking....does anyone out there know what year the stopped making the black with white writing number plates????

About 1986, I think

[Genie]

About 1986, I think

Thanks.. thought it must be about 20 years ago. Saw this awesome old red bike today...it had an old plate. Bike was in pristine conditon. Very much loved by it's owner.

[Insanity_rules]

As a teen with my mates, we used to play "see who can expose their buttocks out the window longest". Ahhh mooning, harmless fun. No one does it anymore.

The other day my daughter and I played "who can put up with Justin Bieber on the radio the longest". I lost lasting only 29 seconds.

[Pussy]

The other day my daughter and I played "who can put up with Justin Bieber on the radio the longest". I lost lasting only 29 seconds.

.... that's 28 seconds longer than I can!.....

[Insanity_rules]

.... that's 28 seconds longer than I can!.....

I tried so hard!

[Hopeful Bastard]

We used to play "Guess the make and model of the car before it got close enough to read" Was bloody fun..

Then there was the personalised number plates... Figure out what they say..

Saw this one.. I didnt know what it was, mum couldnt figure it out. But my little brother did...

DRGDLR - Anyone keen to take a guess at this one?

[2wheeldrifter]

I tried so hard!

song from Linkin park isn't it?


well words from one lol

[SMOKEU]

Find the sausage.

[Genie]

As a teen with my mates, we used to play "see who can expose their buttocks out the window longest". Ahhh mooning, harmless fun. No one does it anymore.

The other day my daughter and I played "who can put up with Justin Bieber on the radio the longest". I lost lasting only 29 seconds.

Reminds me of a girls trip from Nelson to Westport....never have I seen so many naked bottoms in one day...about 12 of the 15 chicks going down took great pleasure in exposing their butt to any and all male!



.... that's 28 seconds longer than I can!.....

I've not yet had the pleasure of hearing this young man sing...does he sing like a girl for he surley looks like one!


We used to play "Guess the make and model of the car before it got close enough to read" Was bloody fun..

Then there was the personalised number plates... Figure out what they say..

Saw this one.. I didnt know what it was, mum couldnt figure it out. But my little brother did...

DRGDLR - Anyone keen to take a guess at this one?

Drag dollar???


Find the sausage.

I thought it was hide the sausage!

[BAD DAD]

drug dealer .... DRGDLR that is

[Genie]

drug dealer .... DRGDLR that is

of course...I did think that but didn't want to show my naughty side:innocent:

[Juzz976]

I always thought that spotle was a specially made coke bottle with the bottom cut off and used to hold ice in the upper part of the bottle. Short for Spot-Bottle, or so I've been told :innocent:

[Insanity_rules]

song from Linkin park isn't it?
well words from one lol

I'd well rather listen to Linkin Park



I've not yet had the pleasure of hearing this young man sing...does he sing like a girl for he surley looks like one!

Imagine if you will, someone beating a teenage girl with a sack full of door knobs then shutting her in a refrigerator and pushing it end over end down 3 flights of stairs. The wailing from said girl would still be better and more musical than Justin Bieber. Or at least thats what it sounds like to me.

[Genie]

We play mini punch. First person to see a mini says "mini punch" and gets to punch the person next to them.

Was fun up until my brother saw one before I did :angry:

Good one...told this to my kids, youngest now punchs me even if she saw a mini yesterday and we weren't in the car. She's getting very good at it as well, she plays spottal like mad and also has invented for herself.....Toyota. so inbetween the punchs and her screeching I'm in a bit of pain.:sunny:

[XxKiTtiExX]

Good one...told this to my kids, youngest now punchs me even if she saw a mini yesterday and we weren't in the car. She's getting very good at it as well, she plays spottal like mad and also has invented for herself.....Toyota. so inbetween the punchs and her screeching I'm in a bit of pain.:sunny:


My brother and his gf play mini punch. She reckons it stopped being fun when they stumbled upon a whole car yard full of minis (in aussie). Least your youngest is having fun lol :shutup:

[Madmax]

I'd well rather listen to Linkin Park




Imagine if you will, someone beating a teenage girl with a sack full of door knobs then shutting her in a refrigerator and pushing it end over end down 3 flights of stairs. The wailing from said girl would still be better and more musical than Justin Bieber. Or at least thats what it sounds like to me.
Id rather it was justin Bieber i was beating, maybe stuff a battery and jumper leads
in the fridge, then roll him, after have some fun with the jumper and battery