The best travel games for families
Family holidays are great, but the problem is you always have to get there. Long journeys, whether by train, plane or car can be extremely boring, or extremely stressful if you have lots of children to keep occupied along the way. That is where the travel game comes in. Often small and compact or requiring no apparatus whatsoever, they are a convenient way of ensuring everyone is entertained for the entirety of their journey, thus making them fly by. What you don't want, however, is for those travel games to be boring themselves, and so here is a list of the travel games that are guaranteed to keep the family entertained for hours.
The classic board games are often the best, and they are now almost exhaustively transferred into travel versions. Games that require a lot of concentration and time are good for making time seem as though it is going quickly, such as chess, backgammon and checkers. Compact in size, and often coming with magnetic pieces, these games are suited to whatever way you wish to travel.
A standard pack of cards is a form of entertainment that can never get old, because you can never learn all of the games you can play with it. Games like snap, for example, can be perfect for children of very young ages. Older children, teenagers and adults can relish in the more intellectual games such as contract whist and poker.
Some of the best games, however, are those that do not require apparatus. One such game is 'GHOST', and this can be extremely beneficial for children because it can help them be creative with words. First, one person says a letter from the alphabet, then going round clockwise each other player says a letter that goes some way to forming a word. Whoever says a letter that completes a word loses the round and gets the letter 'G' assigned to them, followed by 'H', 'O', 'S' and 'T' for every round they lose. Whoever gets all of the letters of 'GHOST' loses the game.
The ability to bluff makes this game extremely interesting. If no one picks up on the fact that you have said a letter that does not go towards making a word, then the next person to play loses. If you are bluffing and someone does pick up on it, then you lose the round; while if someone picks up on you and you weren't bluffing they get a letter from 'HORSE'. Though there is a lot of choice for how to spend your journeys, it is often the simplest games that make for the greatest entertainment value.
The classic board games are often the best, and they are now almost exhaustively transferred into travel versions. Games that require a lot of concentration and time are good for making time seem as though it is going quickly, such as chess, backgammon and checkers. Compact in size, and often coming with magnetic pieces, these games are suited to whatever way you wish to travel.
A standard pack of cards is a form of entertainment that can never get old, because you can never learn all of the games you can play with it. Games like snap, for example, can be perfect for children of very young ages. Older children, teenagers and adults can relish in the more intellectual games such as contract whist and poker.
Some of the best games, however, are those that do not require apparatus. One such game is 'GHOST', and this can be extremely beneficial for children because it can help them be creative with words. First, one person says a letter from the alphabet, then going round clockwise each other player says a letter that goes some way to forming a word. Whoever says a letter that completes a word loses the round and gets the letter 'G' assigned to them, followed by 'H', 'O', 'S' and 'T' for every round they lose. Whoever gets all of the letters of 'GHOST' loses the game.
The ability to bluff makes this game extremely interesting. If no one picks up on the fact that you have said a letter that does not go towards making a word, then the next person to play loses. If you are bluffing and someone does pick up on it, then you lose the round; while if someone picks up on you and you weren't bluffing they get a letter from 'HORSE'. Though there is a lot of choice for how to spend your journeys, it is often the simplest games that make for the greatest entertainment value.
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