Car games

 

These can be used when carpooling or on long trips. Warning: some are not suitable for children.

The Nah Nah Game.

Choose a tune and then replace the words or instrumentals with 'nahs'. Hence NNah! NNah! Nyah! Nyah! Is the guitar solo at the beginning of "Sweet Child of Mine'. Geddit?

The Alphabet Game

1. The Alphabet Game - try and spot letters from A-Z, first to Z wins.
2. The other Alphabet Game - I went to market and bought ...." (something beginning with A, B, C etc with each person repeating the list so far before adding their thing)
3. The other, other Alphabet Game - pick a topic (movies, books, bands) and take turns thinking of names from A-Z. (An adult version of this is to make up brothel names eg: Beavers R Us. The G Spot. The Penis Palace.)

Car Cricket

Car = 1 run. Motorbike = 2 runs. Van = 4. Bus = 6. Touring bicycle is 10 runs! Any kind of trailer and you're out (including utes). Then it's somebody else's innings. Best rule: Tractor in a field means rain stops play.

In yer pants

An easy way of getting someone to snort laugh. Think of film names and then add 'In yer pants'.

For example:

• Snakes on a Plane in yer pants
• Gone with the wind in yer pants
• The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain... in yer pants!

Root, shoot or marry?

The only rule is you HAVE to assign a person to each category. Here are some to get you started:

• Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
• Obama, Trotsky or Ghandi
• Jesus, Zeus or Richard Dawkins

Milder version for chidlets - Who would you rather be? Harry or Ron? Sookie or Bella? The blue Wiggle or the yellow Wiggle?

Hey! Cow!

As featured in the News from Lake Woebegone. This is one for trips around agricultural regions.  When going past a paddock of cows open the window and yell "Hey! Cow!" and then count how many cows turn to look at you. Do not, as my boyfriend and I did, yell it when a nice lady happens to be jogging past cows. To this day she probably doesn't know why two strange people insulted her…

(With thanks to Gemma Gracewood, Rachael King, Marianne Elliott, Rebecca Priestly, my Mum and Dad and Garrison Keillor.)

 

Comments

[rory]

Hey cow rules, and I've never heard of anyone else that's played it before.

[Sar]

Best car game ever...THE MARSHMALLOW GAME

Requires 1 (or more) large bag of marshmallows.

This game has fairly basic rules: open all car windows and throw the marshmallows at objects on the side of the road. Points are scored for direct hits only and are allocated according to unusualness of object and degree of difficulty (i.e. large road sign 1 point, cow in field 10 points, car going in same direction 5 points, getting it in the window of another car 50 points, if the other driver eats it 3million points).

[Cheap Computers Canada]

Quite an interesting blog will come back for more.

[Gemma]

Well, I'd most likely root Jagger, shoot Richards (for hooking up with the Russian waitress) and marry Reed (because that would make me Laurie Anderson!).

[Marianne @ Zen Peacekeeping]

Hmmm. It's a tough call but I think I'd have to root Zeus, shoot Richard Dawkins and marry Jesus.