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We used to play a silly game with our family on drives when I was a kid.
Half a dozen members of my mishpocky and I played an interesting, albeit disorganized (but still lots of fun), game in my backyard over the summer during one of our barbecues.
We think it might be called "Actors & Actresses." It goes as follows: The first person has to think of an actor/actress, announce their initials, and everyone else tries to guess, with reasonable questions such as "dead or alive," "male or female," "modern or old-timey," etc.
Careful when you get to CG, as it could refer to both Cary Grant and Clark Gable, both old-timey, dead males.
Whoever guesses gets to go next. TONS of fun, especially if you have as many old, Jewish aunts (kineynehara) who enjoy reliving happy memories as I have.
Nesiyah tova, Mishpachat Elisson.
i love family road trips. please come and get me next time, i want to cruise with y'all.
Ah all those lovely games to keep the kids occupied for the long haul. We did over 20 years of several times a year trips between Chicago and St. Louis... we always managed without a DVD player or even much more than an AM radio since our car didn't even have a tape drive (not that we could have afforded the tapes to play in it at first)
And we wonder why people can't think anymore... every time they have an extended period of inactivity (long car trip) they pump the kids full of mindless drivel instead of making them use their brains. LOL.
And when you really get bored start with that old standby..sing 99 bottles of beer on the wall
My favorite is a word game. Play begins with someone naming a letter. The next person adds a letter before or after that letter. The each player, in turn, adds one letter to either the beginning or end of the string of letters that he's passed. The trick is: the sequence of letters must always form part of an English word. If it's your turn but you can't think of a word that contains that letter sequence, you can either challenge the person who just added a letter to name that word, or you can bluff, adding a letter in hopes that the next person won't challenge you. If you're challenged but can't name the word, the challenger wins a point. But if you do name the word, then you win the point. Play starts over with the next player seeding a new sequence each time someone scores. The game is best with three or four players.
Example -- If you're passed the sequence: I-N-G-E-S, everyone might be expecting you to add a T to the end (INGEST, INGESTed, INGESTers, INGESTion, ....) But a cunning player will also spot words like bINGES, hINGES, tINGES, crINGES, twINGES, syrINGES, .... A real pro will spot helpINGEst and be able to convince everyone else that it really is a word.
No wonder your youngins are such accomplished ladies.
Brings back memories of a trip with my Aunt Joanne from Virginia to Tennessee. Had me identifying diesel trucks by maker, she did, for some unknown and twisted reason.
However it proved to be a winfall for me later on. On subsequent trips other places, the old man resorted to handing me quarters to shut up with the truck maker recitations.
.... what?... no reading of Robert Service?.... heh!...
What? No Goats 'n' Gravy? No Terrorize the Hitchiker? No Caw?
The teachers at my school still tell stories of the wrasslin' match that ensued between me and a kid named Hemal at a gas station somewhere in Virginia on a school enrichment trip over whether I got points for "Quebec" in the license plate game or not.
Also, being an east coast family, we weighted the points one got for states based on their time zone, with a Hawaii bringing a whopping 20 points.
And I worked with a girl, back in the day, who'd toted her car from Hawaii when she moved to Nashville. Every morning, when I passed her car, I gave myself 20 points.
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