Road trips when younger: What games did you play staring out the window?

[martypants]

Me and my brother would check out the cars and 'bags' what ones we wanted.. i.e see a falcon and the first to say they bags it means its theirs. Used to get interesting if we 'bagsed' (sp?) it at the same time. Think that caused most of the fights in the back seat. Another was when in the car with the old man saying "pass that car and that one and that one" until one day he got pulled up and had to make a compulsory donation! That game didnt last long.

[Hitcher]

Looking for things that started with A, and then B, etc.

Also playing Cryptic I Spy.

[Oakie]

We were so poor we couldn't afford imagination games etc. We just sat in the back and argued until mum would turn around and smack the closest one. Unfortunately for long trips she started bringing the wooden spoon which gave her enough reach to hit any of us.(Don't tell Sue Bradford).

[Smorg]

Well with 5 kids we had to keep them entertained, Cricket was the best way, white cars passing you in the other direction was a wicket, trucks 6 runs, vans 4 runs any other coloured cars 1 run, its ok until an argument breaks out. It certainly passed the time away.

whats an out? a crash?

[cowboyz]

we did a fair bit of travelling when younger and we used to carry pen and paper and write notes to following cars and hold then up on the back window. Like "how is your day?" and "where are you going today?"

You would be surprised how often you get answers and get into conversations. Passing lanes would come up and Dad would take off and pass everything and we would complain that we had left our new friends behind....

[Forest]

We used to play a game where someone would name a country/city/state/region and the next person had to name a country/city/state/region that started with the letter the previous choice ended with (and couldn't reuse a previous answer). I guess the idea was to build geographic knowledge.

As an example, a game might got Australia -> Auckland -> Denmark -> Korea -> America -> Arctic -> California etc

One day we were playing and my brother said Punjab. Knowing that my father's turn followed mine, I decided to play my trump card ... Bronx.

Funnily enough we didn't play this game again.

[Hitcher]

I decided to play my trump card ... Bronx.

Funnily enough we didn't play this game again.

Xanadu.

A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu

And now
Open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu

A million lights are dancing
And there you are
A shooting star
An everlasting world
And you're here with me
Eternally.

[hXc]

Similar to Forest's game; "The Alphabet Game."

Start with the youngest (me), and continue from there. Using each letter of the alphabet, starting with A, one would name a town in NZ, then the next youngest etc etc. Then you would move to B and so on.

I used to love it when we got to Y. I'm the youngest and there's only one; Yaldhurst.