Whenever I think of long car rides I normally think of the times when I use to play these games to avoid hearing those familiar words ” Don’t make me turn this car around!”
I Spy
Perhaps the granddaddy of road trip games, this twist on Twenty Questions can be huge fun or hugely frustrating depending on the spymaster’s eye. The first head spy declares “I spy with my little eye,” and then offers one hint about the object in question, such as “something blue.” Players then ask yes-or-no questions to determine what that blue thing might be. You definitely need have a lot of patience.
Road Trip Bingo
The rules of the game were simple: when you saw an object out the window that was on your card, you marked it with a penny or the loose piece of animal cracker you’ve been saving since Ohio. The first one to fill up a card wins, yells Bingo and the top of her lungs and watches as his or her siblings build with jealousy.
A is for Armadillo
A test of concentration, this game runs through the alphabet with each person assigning a word to the 26 letters, and the following person has to repeat the previous letters and words then add another. Beginning with “A is for alphabet,” the next person says “A is for alphabet, B is for bowling,” and so on. Perhaps the only game we have never heard of being successfully completed from A-to-Z, you’ll want to beware of playing this game with Scrabble masters.
Alphabet
Another alphabet game that might appear to be much easier than A is for Armadillo, all this one requires you to do is find the letters of the alphabet in order on road signs or license plates. It can be played in succession—one person finds the letter A, the next finds the letter B—or concurrently, with the first person to find the letter getting the credit. It’s all fun and games until you get to fringe letters like Q and X, and you’d be surprised how hard letters like K and V are to find in some parts of the country. For added difficulty if you’ve got a long way to drive, play with numbers instead, finding them up to the number 30 in succession. This is especially fun to play in Florida, which has a ton of vanity and single-digit plates.
Cow Poker
First off: this is only about counting cows. Players are divided into left side and right side, and the two sides count the cows they see on their side of the road. If you drive by a cemetery, then the team on the same side as the cemetery loses all of its cows and has to start over from zero. Nevertheless, you’re even less likely to find cows and cemeteries on the same stretch of highway anymore, so you can substitute objects like billboards or tractors for cows, But keep the name Cow Poker. You can never substitute that.
What were your favorite road trip games? Or better yet what still are your favorite road trip games? Let me know !! Leave a comment! 
