This car game is great for the kids’ brains too! 10. Or, try numberplate sums, where you add the last digits on numberplates of cars approaching you and call out the number. FLZ 323 could be “323 Funny Looking Zebras”. Make funny sayings from the number plates you see, eg. Try making sentences from the letters on other cars’ number plates and to make it more challenging for the older kids, put give them a time-frame to work in. Take turns coming up with two different funny, weird or downright disgusting scenarios and fellow players pick which one they’d prefer. You will be surprised to see just how quickly your backseat bandits can be silenced. Suggest that the winner of ‘Who can stay quiet the longest’ may earn a prize.

Quiet timeĪll right, this one’s not so much a game as a sneaky way to get the kids to settle down for a while. The first person chooses a song to sing, using a lyric from a known anthem, and then the next person has to link it to another song and so forth, until somebody stumbles and loses the game.

By the time the whole car has had a few turns, you should have an entertaining narrative. One person starts off with the opening sentence for a story, then the next person follows on. Guess the timeĬar travellers take turns estimating the amount of time they have left until they reach the next destination. If 20 questions are asked without a correct guess, then the answerer wins and gets to be the answerer for another round. If a questioner guesses the correct answer, that questioner wins and becomes the answerer for the next round. This one is easy peasy: player one thinks of a person, place or thing and everyone else takes turns asking questions that can be answered with a yes or no.

Games we can play in the car