Vacation travel games

A bit of competition keeps everyone in good spirits. Here are seven of our favourite games for taking wherever you go…. Even if you hate Monopoly, you might still love Monopoly Deal. Because Monopoly Deal is Monopoly without all of the bits that make people mad.

It has no board and comes in a tiny hard case, making it a perfect travel game. The rules sound really complex but after a few games it becomes second nature.

Cinko Linko is a game designed for traveling. It can be played anywhere and you can teach anyone how to play by just gesticulating a lot.

That means language barriers disappear and everyone can get involved. Think a super tactical version of Connect 4 without the plastic upright board. Unscramble a range of words related to travel with this printable worksheet. Enjoy writing about travel and your dream vacation with this printable worksheet.

Cities of the Alphabet - Worksheet. Think of a city for as many letters of the alphabet as you can with this fun ESL worksheet. Car - Coloring Page. Transport is an important part of travel so why not take our car coloring page for a spin? Geography - Quiz. Answer a range of interesting questions about geography with our printable quiz.

Countries - Quiz. Use a variety of clues to work out which country is the correct answer. You will see people from all over the world hesitate the first time they are able to steal the worms, but after that they will happily grab them from you with a big smile on their faces!

We played Regenwomen with the porters and guides during our Himalaya trek. Best played on road trips. Everyone in the car has an iPhone or other music playing device of course and chooses 5 songs. Their favorite song to dance to, favorite song to sing to, best song to pick someone up in the bar, their wedding song and then their funeral song.

Mix up the order and everyone has to guess which is which! You get to hear new music, and learn more about your fellow travelers by listening to their favorite tunes! It was a great way to get to know other people well in a short time and a lot of fun! Lots of fun and a great memory!

Go for the smaller objects and the hidden but not too hidden things. There is no winning or losing in this game, that is why it can go on and on and on! If a dare is too much for a person, he or she will get punished by revealing 2 truth.

If a truth is too much for a person to reveal, he or she will have to carry out 2 dares to compensate it. Those who join the game are pretty much open to doing every shameless dare and digging out the deepest secrets they keep. For example: do not try to ask about a recent break-up when the wound is still fresh. I will not forget the first time we played Truth of Dare in a Russian intercity train.

At first, the Russians watched us with stern face but after a while they too started to enjoy the show. The concept is to name the capital of the country someone chooses. For example, I say Ethiopia and someone would need to guess the capital which is Addis Ababa.

Many times someone will guess the wrong capital and it is fun when you start to decide what you win. You can play for big stakes like money where the first person to get a capital wrong wins all the money or even play just on who pays for something next, like dinner. A lot of people would be surprised the capitals of many countries. This is actually a game that I lost.

Everyone would put in a dollar every time the right capital was given and the first person who lost they would lose all the money to the winner. The person stating the country. Eventually we got to big stakes and I ended up losing a full round trip ticket to Asia! The rules are simple: as you walk around in the airport, you may never pass a free sample without grabbing it; chocolate, drinks, perfume- everything. You lose by being so pre-occupied with free samples that you miss your flight.

In Singapore around Xmas was especially fun. I walked around for about 6 hours and in the end, my belly ached from all the chocolates, I was pretty tipsy and I must have smelled like a prostitute because of all the perfume samples.

The pizza game is pretty simple to play and does not need any equipment bar a couple of creative minds with some knowledge of popular culture. Feel free to Tweet or Facebook us some responses!

Whoever spots the most dogs by the time your destination arrives is the winner. I was playing ZitchDog with my hubby on our road trip to Agra. It was fun and then when we were about to reach our destination, we lost count totally. You win by getting 4 of a kind.

Once you have 4 of a kind 4 aces, 4 queens, 4 fives, whatever then you pick up a spoon. The rest has to instantly pick up a spoon too. If you are last to pick up a spoon, you lose and drink. Then you all laugh, re-deal… and drink some more! No spoons available? This game can be played by putting your finger on the side of a table instead of picking up a spoon.

Not yet played while traveling. This game has a lot of winners, but just one loser ;-. The player whose dice is first at one will lose the game and has to drink a shot preferably vodka. A friend of us lost this game 12 times on one evening, so he got really drunk. Aaah, the classic drinking game. There are different rules throughout the world. You start by putting all the cards face-down around a cup in the middle of the table.

Does that sound fun to you? You can call it fun, you can call it stupid, but one thing is certain: everybody gets out-of-their-heads drunk with this game.

No need to have any objects, except for your hand. Each player on the count of 3 shoots out their hand and shows either zero fist or 5 fingers. It was a great night of eating homemade tortillas and drinking cheap rum.

We played this during a typhoon when we hardly had enough light and rain was pouring outside. This game is unique in that the game is never truly won. Other people get titles too, like vice-president, scum or vice-scum, which they keep for the next game. You simply stop playing when you get bored which is, you know, never. It is still possible, however, and game by game you can improve your rank.

There are no winners in Mayer, just losers who drink. You start with 6 lives, and the player that first loses all of their lives loses the game. The game contains a lot of bluffing, although that depends on the players of course. I personally love it when you have to decide whether the person you are playing against is lying or telling the truth.

I look for specific signs and when I call them out some people really have no poker face! It is a truly great way to kill some time and meet some soon-to-be friends. You can win Mexxen by having a really good stomach haha! But you have to lose some to win eventually. So drinking some shots of alcohol is recommended. And of course, more shots means more dice on the floor and so on. The funniest thing is that there are always people who have a ridiculous amount of bad luck and therefore will get drunk very early on in the game.

My best memory playing Mexxen on my travels is mostly the few hours after playing the game. The funniest thing is that a lot of friends are getting drunk and everybody is falling asleep at the most weird places: in the kitchen, under a tree and even under the table! The photos are the best memories, but you know how it works: what happens on the island….

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Currently in: Amsterdam. This blog is all about traveling on your own terms and not following the masses. Read my story ». Thank you for the nice list. I will definitely try out a few of those. I particularly like card games and board games. My circle is right now addicted to this game.

Censored is a dirty phrase guessing game that simple and super fun. Give clues to get your friends or roommates or relatives to guess as many dirty adult themed secret phrases as possible in 90 seconds but no one not the clue giver, not your guessing friends is allowed to say the taboo words if you catch them guess one, give them a heads up they are wrong by buzzing them with the buzzer!

Check out the app store of your choice! Great article thanks. We are always on the lookout for new after-dinner games for our holidays, especially now our kids are grown up. A suggestion for you is Munchkin.

A card only game so easy to pack. In a similar vein to Fluxx, the rules change often and there are many expansion decks to add variety. Thanks a lot for the suggestion! I have heard of the game but I have never played it. Home » 49 travel games for adults that will rock your next road trip.

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