Fun roadtrip games: HORSE

It's a fun word game. One player starts with any letter. Then you alternate turns. You must have a word in mind each time you add a letter, but you do NOT want to end a word. Here's a sample:

Player 1: d
Player 2: du
Player 1: dut
(Player 1 is thinking of "duty," and thinks Player 2 will now have to finish the word with a "y.")

Player 2: duti
(Player 2 was too clever, and is going for "dutiful," which player 1 will have to end.)

Player 1: dutie
(Ah! Player 1 is thinking of "duties," which Player 2 will have to end.)

Player 2: duties. Ends word, gets an H. The next time she loses, she gets an O. First one to spell HORSE loses.

If you say a letter and are challenged, you have to come up with a word, or you get the HORSE letter. For example, if your opponent says "S" and you say "J," she can challenge you and if you don't have a word that begins "SJ," you get a letter. Read More.....

Fun roadtrip games: The alphabet game

Each of you has to find every letter of the alphabet, in order.
The first one to the end of the alphabet wins. You get the letters off billboard and road signs (you have to decide ahead of time if you want to count license plates and sides of moving vehicles). "Q" and "Z" are usually pretty hard to find, so if you know a Dairy Queen or Zaxby's is coming up, try to get to that letter. ("X's" are easy, cuz of all the Exit signs.) Read More.....

Fun roadtrip games: Card Math

If you need a fun way to learn multiplications with your child try this game. Both of you should have a pen and sheet of paper.
Make five lines in a column on one corner of both papers and then a small line below the far right of the column for a total sum amount. Start out with a deck of cards and use only the 1’s through 5’s. Shuffle the cards and deal two faced up the other player.
They are to write down the two numbers, multiply them and write the answer in a tally column. You then deal two cards to yourself, say the multiplied sum out loud and write the answer on your paper. Then repeat until all the cards are gone. At that point you should both have five sets of cards.
Tally up the to answers on both sheets, the person with the highest number is the winner. You can play again until you have mastered 1-5’s. Do this a couple times of week for a few minutes a day. Once they can do 1-5’s you can replace the lower numbers with the next higher set of cards 2-6’s, 3-7’s or make the columns longer example 2-7’s. Read More.....

Fun roadtrip games: Celebrity Initials

How to play:

There are two versions of this. One is the 20-questions game. One of you comes up with a celebrity, and gives the initials to the other. The other gets to ask 20 yes-no questions to discover who the mystery person is. The celebrity can be real or fake, human or otherwise, but the celebrity must be someone you're reasonably sure the other has heard of. So
, Buggs Bunny (fake non-human) is okay, but your second grade teacher is not. The best strategy to play this game is to go from the general to the specific. For example:

If the initials are J.D.

Is this a human being? Yes
Is it female? No
Is he living? No
Was he a politician? No
Was he an entertainer? Yes
Was he a singer? Yes
Was he in a band? No
Performed solo? Yes
Did he play an instrument? Yes
Piano? No
Guitar? Yes
Did he die within the last ten years? No
Did he die within the last 25 years? Yes
Did he die a natural death? No
Did he die in an accident? Yes
Was it a car wreck? No
A moving vehicle accident of any kind? Yes
Plane crash? yes
John Denver? Yes

Some questions can be tricky, like if they had asked if the person was an actor. John Denver did act in "Oh! God!" but he wasn't known for that. Likewise, if someone did Sonny Bono, they'd have to say he was a politician.

The other celebrity initial game, you two find letters, like on signs and stuff, and shout out two that are in a row. You'll have to do the whole word, two letters at a time. The first one to come up with a celebrity with those initials wins the round. For example, you see a sign that says "CAUTION" and someone says the word. You go through it:

CA: Christina Applegate
AU: Al Unser
UT: Uma Thurman
TI: Rapper T.I.
IO: I'm stumped.
ON: Ozzie Nelson Read More.....