Road trip mind games

When someone falls asleep, get everyone else to come up with a story together. When sleeping beauty awakes, explain all the exciting things they missed and see if you can get them to believe it.

Then, give everyone a total of 21 questions to guess what it is. Did you hear? Alphabet categories: Choose a category, for example, types of food or breeds of dogs. Then, take turns listing items that fit your category in alphabetical order. Name game: This car driving game is perfect for pop culture fans. Start by saying the first and last name of a famous person. Play them both on the stereo and let the whole car vote for a winner. Work your way through the alphabet and test your memory.

What am I counting? Take turns humming a well-known song and see if anyone can guess it. Sing-along string-along: Sing one line from a song. Then, the next person sings a line from another song that starts with the last word of the previous lyric.

Would you rather? License plate map: Print off a map of the United States and try to spot a license plate from every state. Alphabet race: Shout out one letter of the alphabet. The first person to find a word starting with that letter wins. Mad Libs: This game is a popular go-to when looking for things to do on a road trip. Choose words to fill in the blanks, then laugh at the silly stories you create.

Road sign bingo: You can find free versions of this driving game online. Before you leave home, print a bingo card off the internet. Then, try to find all the road signs on the card. Explain a film plot badly: See how quick-witted your passengers are by giving alternate explanations of popular movie plots. Then, see if they can guess the film. But you can pick any two people in the world and try to connect them through six connections or less.

Answer questions on a paper or free write whatever comes to mind. A classic. My kids delight in trying to stump each other — and us — by choosing the most obscure things! Talk about a fun road trip game! This idea is genius.

If your kids love to build with legos, then this idea is for you. I love that the kids can build with and store their legos all in one place. Play trivia games that involve learning all the states and their capitals. My family did it when I was a kid, and I still remember those fun times to this day and play the game with my kids!

Look how amazing these look! My kids are mesmerized by these amazing DIY hurricane jars and can look at them for long periods of time. This idea is geared mostly toward kiddos who can read. However, if your little one knows letter sounds, they might be able to join in on the fun. Each player must find the next letter either on something in the car like the stereo screen or license plates, or road signs.

Guess the song. Whoever can shout out the name of the song first, wins. Be sure to cover you your radio screen if it says the song names as they play. Truth or Car-Contained Dare. A game of truth or dare where all the dares must be something that can be accomplished safely in the car. Deep Questions. Find a long list of good questions to get to know someone and work your way through them.

Going on a Picnic. The list grows and grows and the first person to not be able to correctly list all the items is the loser or out, if you have enough people to play in elimination rounds. I Spy. The road trip classic. The other players take turn asking yes or no questions until they can guess what the item is. One person says a word that begins a story.

Take turns adding one word onto the story and see where it ends up! The License Plate Game. Interpret the letters in each license plate you pass. Would You Rather. Play an epic game of Would You Rather. Try to stump the other person with the weirdest or most difficult questions you can come up with or find online.

Pick two people in the world and try to connect them in 6 people or less. Scavenger Hunt. Every time you drive past a restaurant of some kind, the first person to spot it gets to collect the tick for the food type it serves. Steaks and pizzas should be easy to collect by everyone, but you might just win if you're the only one who spotted the seafood restaurant in the middle of Oklahoma! This is another simple game that keeps your brain occupied during a long drive without being too strenuous.

One person simply says any name they can think of and the next person must say another name that begins with the last letter of the name before, and so on. For example if passenger one says Tom, passenger two might say Mary. If you've made any friends during your road trip, try and include their names to make it a tad more topical.

Obviously adding the rule of not repeating the same names once they have been mentioned makes this a whole lot more interesting as the game progresses although you're guaranteed to have a disagreement over whether a name has or has not been mentioned already!

If you're comfortable in your musical knowledge you'll definitely want to suggest playing this one. The rules are simple: get the front passenger to play the first few seconds of a song and whoever can guess the artist and song title the quickest wins a point.

This is much easier if you can connect your phone to the car for the road trip and play songs from there so you can easily search and pause the music. The person with the most points after half an hour gets control of the music for the rest of the journey, so there's a lot at stake Instead of just guessing the song after a few seconds, players have to rack their brains and try and sing the next line, and the person who successfully remembers it first wins a point.

Think of a reward for whoever wins, and if you attempt it but get it wrong you have to do a forfeit chosen by the driver. This game's a little less hands-on but no less entertaining. Use your road trip driving time to discover all the local radio stations of the place you're visiting by re-tuning every ten minutes and choosing a new station at random. You'll probably find some pretty wacky programs and get to know traditional and popular music in that country - a great way to appreciate culture even when you're between destinations.

This road trip game can be be as PG or as outrageous as you like depending on the age of the passengers. Take turns asking the car whether they would rather do one thing or another e.

Make it as difficult as possible to choose between the two options for maximum entertainment value, whether that's making them equally amazing or equally horrible, it's up to you….

You can see how this game can get as interesting in group of adults as with kids - answering the question is compulsory and providing reasons is where it gets fun! Everyone in the car gets to make up a silly rule, e. The last person to join in when an action is enforced gains a point, and the person with the most points at the end of the drive loses.

Get as creative as you like with the rules and try and catch people out where possible so you can take the victory. If you're that nosy friend that wants to find out all of your companions' deepest secrets then you'll like this one. Passengers take it in turns to be in the hot seat and are asked 5 questions, one of which they're allowed to veto and the other four must be answered honestly. This is best played in an adult-only car questions get notoriously cheeky and is the ideal way to pass the time finding out some interesting new facts about your road trip friends.

You can use it as a warm up or a step up from the car version of Truth or Dare see 27 below depending on how close your friendships are! Someone picks a car full of people that everyone can see this works best if you're stuck in traffic , and together you make up a story about the people - who they are, where they're going, what they do for a living.

The funnier and more far-fetched the story, the better - just make sure you're not staring too obviously at your subjects or it might get a little awkward Use your imagination to make the stories controversial and see how far you can go with making things up! You might just surprise yourself how the most innocuous of road trip games will make you spot things you would never otherwise see just by looking at the cars around you.

Another one for the older crowd. Take turns listing three famous people and the other passengers in the car have to choose which person they would kiss, which they would marry, and which they would avoid. Make it really hard to decide so that everyone has a bit of a laugh, and try to predict each other's answers to add an extra twist to the game. If you want to add a little spice to the game, use people you all know or move to people in the car! There's nothing more tempting than pulling a prank on a passenger who falls asleep en route, and whilst we don't dispute the whole drawing-a-mustache classic, we've got something even craftier.

Whilst they're taking a nap on the road trip, have a brainstorm with the awake members of the party and come up with an epic story or scenario of something that they missed during their nap.