No more fishing loose pieces out of car seats and seat cushions, thanks to sturdy, flippable, magnetic wooden pieces! Adults will enjoy taking a trip down memory lane as they play along with the kids and revisit a childhood classic. The beauty of this smartly designed game- and what makes it one of the best road trip games available-is that the parts stay put. This is another kids’ road trip game that lends itself equally well to collaboration or competition: do they work together or collect their own lists of plates? Or go a step further and have them learn while playing with the Flip to Win License Plate Game by Melissa & Doug.Įasy to play and fun for all ages, it’s a scavenger-hunt style game that helps kids learn U.S. They probably won’t find all 50 (looking at you, Alaska, and Hawaii), but especially if you’re driving cross-country, you’d be surprised how many people you’re sharing the road with.

Have your kids “collect” as many license plate states as they can find, writing each one down to keep track. For example, if one person starts with “aardvark,” the next person could follow up with “butterfly” and so on. Some people use the rule that if someone spots a graveyard, they can declare it and all other players will go back to “A”.Īnother version of the Alphabet Game is for someone to pick a category (the original game is “groceries/food”, but it could be animals, places, famous people, or something else), and the family will take turns naming items from that category that begin with ascending letters from A to Z. Either way, when players spot their next word, they call out their letter and the word (“A! Arby’s!”) so everyone can keep track. It’s up to you whether to play cooperatively–with each player building off the group’s progress–or competitively, with everyone going through their own alphabet. You can look at billboards, road signs, branded trucks, restaurant names, and more. In this classic road trip game that doesn’t require a board or game pieces, players attempt to find words starting with every letter of the alphabet, going in order from A to Z.

Games to play on the road