Yellow lights

• Truth: When you drive under a yellow light kiss your hand, hit the ceiling and yell “truth!” The last person in the car to do so has to tell a secret to everyone else in the car.

License plate games

• States: Count how many different states’ license plates you can find. This game can last the whole trip. You can even make a list of all fifty states and check them off as you go.

• Names: Spell your name with letters on license plates. The first person to spell his or her full name wins. If one players name is longer than another, you should adjust the amount of letters to make the game fair.

Twenty questions

• Thinking of someone: One person thinks of a person, known to all participants, while the others ask “yes” or “no” questions to decipher who it is. Whoever guesses first picks the next subject.

• Bubble talk: Each person thinks of a question everybody can answer. The questions are asked in turn and everyone must answer truthfully. Some sample questions might be: “What is your most embarrassing moment?”, or “Tell us about your first kiss.” All answers remain confidential to those playing the game.

Make a wish

• Bridges: Close your eyes, hold your breath, lift your feet up off the floor,
touch the ceiling and make a wish.
• Tunnels: Close your eyes and hold your breath through the whole tunnel, then make a wish.
• Note: Drivers should not participate fully in this game.

Music

• Name that tune: Flip through the radio stations or CDs and have a race to see who can name each song and artist first.
• Encore: You need two teams for this game. Choose a key word. Each team takes turns naming songs that mention the key word. The team that can’t think of a song first loses.
• Make it up: Have a designated “chooser,” who chooses five objects from outside of the car. Everyone else then makes up a song, to a well-known or original tune, about the five objects.

ABC game

• With letters: Watch every billboard, license plate and street sign you pass. Start with A and find every letter in the alphabet in order. The first one to Z wins.
• With objects: Find an object that starts with the letter you are trying to find. Just to be fair: adjectives don’t count. For example: blue sky doesn’t count for ‘b’.