my brother & I always liked to play 'The Alphabet Game'years ago, on long car rides. You know where you find letters off of license plates & road signs. We always had Funn but argued alot too. There were a few others but I don't remember those (must not have been very good...)
I remember way back in 1986 when my family drove to California to go to DisneyLand & Knottsberry Farm. My brother & I played The Alphabet Game many many many times. That is until our parents asked us to stop because it was driving them crazy! lol
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My kids sit in the back with a color tv, built in vcr and if not watching that they break out the Game Boy. (Doing the driving, I still count telephone poles.)
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We always played the license plate game too. For several years, as a kid, and as an adult, I'd do this. The one license plate from the U.S that was rarest as I recall was from Washington, DC. We also had travel bingo cards that had little red squares you slid over a picture of some object you saw (different road signs, animals, makes of car, etc).
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of the alphabet game - - we had to see something - anything that started with the letter that was next - the tough part was that the other people had to be able to see it as well (so there was no making anything up).
One of the funniest (although it got OLD) was one my Dad used to do - - everytime you were driving at night and smelled a skunk - the first person would say "I one it", and taking turns (couldn't call out another number until it was your turn) - we'd get all the way to "I eight it" and everyone would go "EEEEAAAUUUU YOU ATE IT!!".......
Unfortunately, I was the youngest and slowest to pick up on what number I wanted to be.....so I, "eight" alot of skunks in my day!!
I can remember my three brothers and I counting headlights, and any other lights on the front of the oncoming vehicle. We played this after dark of course. Dad would act as the Emcee. Once he put on his bright lights just to help me out. The other car turned his on in retaliation. I still lost the game. What memories.
We also played punch bug. A variation on the Volkswagen game. First one seeing a VW Bug, would point and say "Punch bug blue, or green. They would then get to punch the other players. We kids loved the game, but usually only made it about 15 minutes before an arguement would start.
Much of the traveling occured in a Pontiac station wagon. This was in the late 60's; Virginia to Alaska and then back to Virginia. Mom and Dad would put down the back seats flat, and us four kids would all sit cross legged around a board game. And nobody had to wear seatbelts!
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My brother and myself used to play a variation of the “counting cows” game. You could only count the ones on your side. If you passed a cemetery (on your side) you had to “bury” your cows and start all over again.
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My family always played...."My father owns a grocery store, and in it he sells something that begins with the letter...." And then you go on from there, asking only yes and no questions to try to figure out what father is selling. Being around 4 or so at the time, I sure fooled my family by telling the he sold something that began with 'Q'. They never figured it out and I had to tell them it was a cucumber!!!
