7 Best Road Excursion Games for Adults
Next week, a few friends and I are heading off on a road journey to DC. One of the friends has a sister there who flies helicopters for the government, so we figured we’d manhandle the fact that she has an apartment half a mile from the National Mall to plan a pretty cheap vacation because what am I, made of money? (No. No, I am not.)
Next week, my friends and I will be road trippin’ to DC in this trusty, old Hyundai
While the traditional road journey games, like the alphabet game and the license plate game, can be good for the entire family, we plan to entertain ourselves in a more adult style. After a few celebratory Jell-o shots before embarking—don’t worry, none for the driver—we’ll look to some of these road tour games for adults to keep ourselves occupied.
Everyone needs some Jell-O shots if they will be passengers on a long, boring road excursion. They are the flawless compliment to some good, old-fashioned adult road journey games.
Keep in mind, some of these games may be NSFW, in my practice.
He who counts the most cows, wins
Counting Cows
I owe this game to a friend from middle/high school, and she in turn owes it to her grandmother. I’ve heard other people play variations of this, but the original one I learned is absolutely the best. The car is divided down the middle. If you’re sitting on the left (driver) side of the car, you’re on a team together, and if you’re sitting on the right (passenger) side, you’re on a team together. During your tour, witness out your windows for cows to count; each cow you spot gets you a point, but you can only count cows on your side of the car.
The game does involve a bit of strategy. If you’re sitting on the passenger side of the car and spot some cows up ahead on the driver side, you can do your best to divert your opponents from looking out their windows and counting the cows. Maybe by abruptly singing out noisy or asking them to identify a weirdly shaped mole on your belly.
A few extra rules: if you pass a church on your side, you dual yours cows because they get married. If you pass a graveyard on your side, you lose all your cows because they die. And if you pass a dual church/graveyard situation, you’re a sick bastard, as you’ve just married off all your cows and killed them on their honeymoon.
And a bonus: if you spot a cow in a tree, that’s an automatic win.
Because Kevin Bacon is in everything
Six Degrees
You’ve likely heard of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. While this doesn’t have any adult content to it, it is much lighter to play with adults who are familiar with cinema/TV. In this game, a player selects two film or TV starlets. Then, all players race to figure out how the two are connected via other actors. For example, if the names are Steve Carell and Elijah Wood, you might determine that Steve Carell was in Date Night with Tina Fey, who starred in thirty Rock, which Steve Martin guest starred on. Steve Martin was in Planes, Trains and Automobiles with John Candy, who starred in Uncle Buck with Macaulay Culkin, who played the bad son in the Elijah Wood film, The Good Son. (Do I get extra points because Kevin Bacon actually makes a cameo in PTA?)
The very first person to make such an association wins, and then selects the next two names to connect.
The best (worst?) time to play Polar Plunge
Polar Plunge
I’m not sure where the old (and odd) expression comes from, but I’m recycling it to use as a title for this game. I’m hoping that the warm weather holds out and this game is not playable on the road journey I’m about to take, but it’s worth mentioning all the same.
This game is best left for the winter months and is rather ordinary. The driver and passengers must unclothe down to their undergarments and drive around on a cold night with the windows flipped down and the AC blasting. The last person to hold out on putting clothes back on wins the game.
Mad Libs
Mad Libs books are a cheap but worthy investment. Because blanks like “parts of the body” can be a bit suggestive when you are playing with an older crowd, it’s best to leave this game for when you have a car total of adults.
However I suppose the game could be joy with kids—but only for the kids, unless you’d find humor in every word being either “poop” or “booger.” Okay, I take that back, it’d still be joy.
What’s Yours Like
What’s Yours Like
You’ll have to shell out some cash to actually buy this game, but it’s worth the investment. In a typical round for this game, all but one player knows what the secret word is. The other players then take turns providing clues that help the person guess the word.
From what I understand, the game is only joy with the right people—players who know how to make a clue not too demonstrable but not too vague, all at the same time.
Would You Rather (however this is a version for the kiddies too)
Would You Rather
The classic game of “Would You Rather” asks life’s roughest questions, like “Would you rather have to eat ten cockroaches every day for breakfast for the rest of your life or share a bedroom with a cockroach the size of a golden retriever for a year?” I include this game as an adult road tour game only because every time I’ve played this game, the questions get progressively more and more risqué.
If you want a more PG version, you can buy a book with premade “Would You Rather” questions—or, you know, just actively keep your mind out of the gutter.
If that headlight is burnt out, you’ve got yourself a Padiddle
Padiddle
This is another joy game to play at night (much like the Polar Plunge game). Whenever you spot a car with a headlight out, you must quickly smack the ceiling of the car. The last person to do so must liquidate an article of clothing. The game may seem a little childish, but with indeed competitive (or attractive) friends, it gets to be very interesting.
7 Best Road Tour Games for Adults – The News Wheel
7 Best Road Journey Games for Adults
Next week, a few friends and I are heading off on a road excursion to DC. One of the friends has a sister there who flies helicopters for the government, so we figured we’d manhandle the fact that she has an apartment half a mile from the National Mall to plan a pretty cheap vacation because what am I, made of money? (No. No, I am not.)
Next week, my friends and I will be road trippin’ to DC in this trusty, old Hyundai
While the traditional road journey games, like the alphabet game and the license plate game, can be good for the entire family, we plan to entertain ourselves in a more adult style. After a few celebratory Jell-o shots before embarking—don’t worry, none for the driver—we’ll look to some of these road excursion games for adults to keep ourselves occupied.
Everyone needs some Jell-O shots if they will be passengers on a long, boring road journey. They are the ideal compliment to some good, old-fashioned adult road journey games.
Keep in mind, some of these games may be NSFW, in my practice.
He who counts the most cows, wins
Counting Cows
I owe this game to a friend from middle/high school, and she in turn owes it to her grandmother. I’ve heard other people play variations of this, but the original one I learned is absolutely the best. The car is divided down the middle. If you’re sitting on the left (driver) side of the car, you’re on a team together, and if you’re sitting on the right (passenger) side, you’re on a team together. During your journey, witness out your windows for cows to count; each cow you spot gets you a point, but you can only count cows on your side of the car.
The game does involve a bit of strategy. If you’re sitting on the passenger side of the car and spot some cows up ahead on the driver side, you can do your best to divert your opponents from looking out their windows and counting the cows. Maybe by all of a sudden singing out noisy or asking them to identify a weirdly shaped mole on your belly.
A few extra rules: if you pass a church on your side, you dual yours cows because they get married. If you pass a graveyard on your side, you lose all your cows because they die. And if you pass a dual church/graveyard situation, you’re a sick bastard, as you’ve just married off all your cows and killed them on their honeymoon.
And a bonus: if you spot a cow in a tree, that’s an automatic win.
Because Kevin Bacon is in everything
Six Degrees
You’ve likely heard of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. While this doesn’t have any adult content to it, it is much lighter to play with adults who are familiar with cinema/TV. In this game, a player selects two film or TV starlets. Then, all players race to figure out how the two are connected via other actors. For example, if the names are Steve Carell and Elijah Wood, you might determine that Steve Carell was in Date Night with Tina Fey, who starred in thirty Rock, which Steve Martin guest starred on. Steve Martin was in Planes, Trains and Automobiles with John Candy, who starred in Uncle Buck with Macaulay Culkin, who played the bad son in the Elijah Wood film, The Good Son. (Do I get extra points because Kevin Bacon actually makes a cameo in PTA?)
The very first person to make such an association wins, and then selects the next two names to connect.
The best (worst?) time to play Polar Plunge
Polar Plunge
I’m not sure where the old (and odd) expression comes from, but I’m recycling it to use as a title for this game. I’m hoping that the warm weather holds out and this game is not playable on the road journey I’m about to take, but it’s worth mentioning all the same.
This game is best left for the winter months and is rather elementary. The driver and passengers must unclothe down to their undergarments and drive around on a cold night with the windows flipped down and the AC blasting. The last person to hold out on putting clothes back on wins the game.
Mad Libs
Mad Libs books are a cheap but worthy investment. Because blanks like “parts of the body” can be a bit suggestive when you are playing with an older crowd, it’s best to leave this game for when you have a car total of adults.
However I suppose the game could be joy with kids—but only for the kids, unless you’d find humor in every word being either “poop” or “booger.” Okay, I take that back, it’d still be joy.
What’s Yours Like
What’s Yours Like
You’ll have to shell out some cash to actually buy this game, but it’s worth the investment. In a typical round for this game, all but one player knows what the secret word is. The other players then take turns providing clues that help the person guess the word.
From what I understand, the game is only joy with the right people—players who know how to make a clue not too demonstrable but not too vague, all at the same time.
Would You Rather (tho’ this is a version for the kiddies too)
Would You Rather
The classic game of “Would You Rather” asks life’s harshest questions, like “Would you rather have to eat ten cockroaches every day for breakfast for the rest of your life or share a bedroom with a cockroach the size of a golden retriever for a year?” I include this game as an adult road excursion game only because every time I’ve played this game, the questions get progressively more and more risqué.
If you want a more PG version, you can buy a book with premade “Would You Rather” questions—or, you know, just actively keep your mind out of the gutter.
If that headlight is burnt out, you’ve got yourself a Padiddle
Padiddle
This is another joy game to play at night (much like the Polar Plunge game). Whenever you spot a car with a headlight out, you must quickly spank the ceiling of the car. The last person to do so must eliminate an article of clothing. The game may seem a little childish, but with indeed competitive (or attractive) friends, it gets to be very interesting.
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