The pub name legs game. Not sure what it’s called really.
Premise is this:
Driving through towns/villages/etc and look for pubs.
Count how many legs are associated with the name of the pub. Highest number wins.
Farmers Arms - 2 legs (By default humans have 2 legs)
The Dunn Cow - 4 legs
The Blue Bell - 0 legs
Hare and Hounds - Many legs
Typing it out reminded me of the otter sketch from Dare to Believe so here it is:
I loved this game! I’ll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like “The Batley Marching Band”
That’s a really clever game!
“Pay attention and stay awake”
Mrs. Noodle and I used to take a lot of road trips; we’d do crossword puzzles between audiobooks, where she would read out the clue, number of letters and any crossings.
Also, “Don’t crash into the oncoming traffic” and “Watch out for that moose” are long time favorites of mine.
The licence plate game. I-spy. Slug bug.
Was going to say Slug Bug. Not sure you can play this game nowadays. Kids would fall asleep before spotting the Bug.
“What’s that smell?”
How do you play that?
I make sure that the windows are all up and locked, then I fart silently and ask anyone if they can smell petrol
Of course, everyone immediately sniffs deeply
Hilarious for all
Not cow manure or alfalfa?
I only throw cow shit at Musk apologists
How many have you done that to?
As many as I can, but it’s less cowshit and more punches given that I live in the city
A guy I used to work with was spouting off some shit from the passenger seat of the vehicle I was driving about how the sig heil was fine, and people were just being “too PC”, so I punched him in the mouth without even taking my eyes off the road
That put the little neo-nazi pussy back in his corner
What did he do to you?
Most recently, spot the car that isn’t black, white, grey, blue or red.
Commercial vehicles don’t count. Gold/bronze gets 1 pt; yellow gets 2 or 4 if it isn’t a sports car; pink gets 4; dark/british racing green gets 4 or 8 if it isn’t vintage; any other type of green gets 6.
We were making this up at the time. That’s as far as we got.
We have played the legs game occasionally, but not much fun on motorways.
And “Horse” from Eagle vs Shark. You win the round when you see a horse and say “horse”.
Supercross Freestyle on Gameboy Color!
I’d wait until the driver was oblivious to me (in the back seat) and make strange noises with my mouth/nose/whatever and try to get the driver to think something suddenly went wrong with the car. It’s a game of subtlety that got me through many a road trip.
The cow/graveyard game, finding signs that start with each letter of the alphabet, finding license plates from the most states, punch buggy of course, and if my parents were pissed off the silent game was enforced.
But NEVER counting the number of cars you see. That was bad luck.
A few years ago I came up with a game where the navigator/DJ queues up 3 songs all connected in some way and the driver (and other passengers) have to figure out what the connection is. It’s become my favourite road trip game, but now I can’t stop noticing random details in songs that would make cool themes.
20 Questions. It was always the most thought-provoking. Very few other people found it fun though that I’d always win.
