New Ideas For Travel Games

Travel games help fill the time, entertain us, and sometimes even educate us. Here are some new ideas for games of every type. They are mostly designed for car travel, but can be adapted to travel by plane, bus, or other means. They're all new games, or at least I hope they are, since I invented them.

The "explain it" game. Someone starts the game with an unlikely scenario, described in one or two sentences. Then each player tries to come up with the most logical and plausible explanation for the scenario. For example, a player might start with, "A car is on top of a house in Kansas City, and a dog is jumping around inside it." The explanations might include floods, tornadoes, an promotional stunt, or whatever else anyone can think of.

Random presentation game. Here's a travel game that starts with someone looking out the window and randomly selecting an object. Players then try to imagine a creative way to make money with it. Old houses become places to sell advertising, llamas are rented out for kids parties, and an RV becomes a traveling discotheque.

Radio word search. In this game, each player chooses a word. The player whose word is spoken (or sung) first on the radio is the winner. You may want to require words of five letters or more.

For ten more travel games, visit the new pages, Travel Games and Car Travel Games.