Crazy road trip games

Dry erase markers can be used to draw on windows. Coloring can take up a good chunk of time. Using dry erase markers makes it easy to erase one artwork and make a new one. A travel journal binder allows kids to write about what they see and do on their trip. Answer questions on a paper or free write whatever comes to mind. A classic. My kids delight in trying to stump each other — and us — by choosing the most obscure things!

Talk about a fun road trip game! This idea is genius. If your kids love to build with legos, then this idea is for you. I love that the kids can build with and store their legos all in one place. Play trivia games that involve learning all the states and their capitals. My family did it when I was a kid, and I still remember those fun times to this day and play the game with my kids!

Look how amazing these look! My kids are mesmerized by these amazing DIY hurricane jars and can look at them for long periods of time.

This idea is geared mostly toward kiddos who can read. However, if your little one knows letter sounds, they might be able to join in on the fun. Some of the best road trip games are super simple. Swear Jar is a slow burn and is sure to entertain and maybe annoy everyone on your trip.

Have you ever wanted to grill your friends, but never had a normal time to do that? I looove this road trip game! Because you can only play it on road trips. The goal is to collect the most regional snacks or drinks during your trip. My family has way too much fun wandering the aisles of Walmart finding chocolate marshmallows or squeeze cheese. This adult road trip game is perfect for those of you that are up on your pop culture or recent events. Every time you come to an intersection, the passengers tell the driver which direction to go — left, right or straight.

Another option is to pre-select your choices and see what happens! I love this simple road trip game because you get to go on a little adventure. I love adult road trip games that are easy and uncomplicated. The one catch is that your excuse has to be the plot of a movie. Your friends can ask questions and the first person to guess the movie wins. Just as the name suggests, this game is all about explaining a movie plot terribly and making your buddies guess the movie.

The worse the description, the funnier! Your friends and family will be off guard and more likely to believe you. We once convinced my grandma that the holes in the rocks at Capitol Reef were from deer hitting the rock with their antlers!

We all have that one friend who falls asleep on the road that might be me…. Once Mr Sleepyhead wakes up, tell your story! Everyone should take turns adding details, without going too over the top. All you have to do is take a good look at the people inside a car beside you. Then create a backstory about the people you just checked out. Who are they seeing?

Why are they travelling? Some really funny stories get invented! If you're comfortable in your musical knowledge you'll definitely want to suggest playing this one. The rules are simple: get the front passenger to play the first few seconds of a song and whoever can guess the artist and song title the quickest wins a point.

This is much easier if you can connect your phone to the car for the road trip and play songs from there so you can easily search and pause the music. The person with the most points after half an hour gets control of the music for the rest of the journey, so there's a lot at stake Instead of just guessing the song after a few seconds, players have to rack their brains and try and sing the next line, and the person who successfully remembers it first wins a point.

Think of a reward for whoever wins, and if you attempt it but get it wrong you have to do a forfeit chosen by the driver. This game's a little less hands-on but no less entertaining.

Use your road trip driving time to discover all the local radio stations of the place you're visiting by re-tuning every ten minutes and choosing a new station at random. You'll probably find some pretty wacky programs and get to know traditional and popular music in that country - a great way to appreciate culture even when you're between destinations.

This road trip game can be be as PG or as outrageous as you like depending on the age of the passengers. Take turns asking the car whether they would rather do one thing or another e. Make it as difficult as possible to choose between the two options for maximum entertainment value, whether that's making them equally amazing or equally horrible, it's up to you….

You can see how this game can get as interesting in group of adults as with kids - answering the question is compulsory and providing reasons is where it gets fun!

Everyone in the car gets to make up a silly rule, e. The last person to join in when an action is enforced gains a point, and the person with the most points at the end of the drive loses. Get as creative as you like with the rules and try and catch people out where possible so you can take the victory. If you're that nosy friend that wants to find out all of your companions' deepest secrets then you'll like this one. Passengers take it in turns to be in the hot seat and are asked 5 questions, one of which they're allowed to veto and the other four must be answered honestly.

This is best played in an adult-only car questions get notoriously cheeky and is the ideal way to pass the time finding out some interesting new facts about your road trip friends.

You can use it as a warm up or a step up from the car version of Truth or Dare see 27 below depending on how close your friendships are! Someone picks a car full of people that everyone can see this works best if you're stuck in traffic , and together you make up a story about the people - who they are, where they're going, what they do for a living. The funnier and more far-fetched the story, the better - just make sure you're not staring too obviously at your subjects or it might get a little awkward Use your imagination to make the stories controversial and see how far you can go with making things up!

You might just surprise yourself how the most innocuous of road trip games will make you spot things you would never otherwise see just by looking at the cars around you. Another one for the older crowd. Take turns listing three famous people and the other passengers in the car have to choose which person they would kiss, which they would marry, and which they would avoid.

Make it really hard to decide so that everyone has a bit of a laugh, and try to predict each other's answers to add an extra twist to the game. If you want to add a little spice to the game, use people you all know or move to people in the car!

There's nothing more tempting than pulling a prank on a passenger who falls asleep en route, and whilst we don't dispute the whole drawing-a-mustache classic, we've got something even craftier. Whilst they're taking a nap on the road trip, have a brainstorm with the awake members of the party and come up with an epic story or scenario of something that they missed during their nap. The aim of the game is to get them to believe the story, so make sure nobody laughs or breaks character come up with a forfeit if they do , and keep the lie going for as long as possible.

If you manage to pull it off this is far better than a DIY mustache This classic road trip game can really take a turn for the worse if you want it to. A simple horror story about a truck that followed the car for miles that you just managed to pull away from before getting a flat tyre can go a long way as you're parked on the side of the road. Peer into the rear view mirror in horror and watch their face when a random truck appears on the horizon!

Popular with kids and adults alike the world over, Categories can be an awesome game to play on road trips as well. The premise is simple - somebody picks a category which can have multiple different answers. Fruit or Beatles' songs can both be great options. Players have to then take turns to name one item from the category at a time. Players are eliminated when they can't name one until there's one winner.

Either the winner or the next person in turn gets to choose the next category. That brings our list of the best road trip games to an end. Do you have other games you enjoy? Get in touch to let us know and we'll add it to our list! The old classic can and should be played on road trips! Players take turns to either answer an embarassing question truthfully or perform a dare set by other players.

The dares obviously have to be contained to the realms of the car or the roadside so you'll have to get creative. Needless to say, this game is very different when played with kids as a family or with adult friends and is equally great in both cases!

This is a road trip game that will require some imagination and provide plenty of topics for conversation.