“If you need to update Facebook, do it now,” the conductor announces over the tannoy. The passengers chuckle but dutifully pull out their phones. As we trundle into the snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains, we’re about to enter another mobile dead zone.
Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Best Travel Games For Kids And Adults
12.11.2023 - 14:13 / forbes.com
Games can help keep travelers entertained while on the road, waiting at the airport or stuck in a hotel room on a bad weather day. As a gift giving idea, travel games can spark up some great conversation or friendly competition among traveling companions, family and friends or those who just met. At home, it’s a way to learn more about each other or get inspired to plan your next trip. Here is a suggested list of travel games to buy and then bring along to play.
This card game from the Chick-fil-A brand, Pennycake, is designed in mind for young families to foster some neat conversation starts amid moments of silence. Its 48 cards list different question categories where a player draws a card from the bag and reads the question or chooses someone to read it for them. The reader also keeps the card, and everyone in the game can see who can collect a card from every category first. Suitable for ages 4 and up.
This beloved card game from Mattel is now packaged in a storage tin that makes it easier to travel around with. Another bonus: not only is the tin itself reusable, but also everything inside is made only from paper. So, it can be recycled! What hasn’t changed, however, is purpose of the game itself. Players match cards by color or number and try to be the first to get rid of all their cards in their hand. Suitable for ages 7 and up.
This multiplayer card game aims to prove which of its players is the most-travel savvy by making them buy, barter and gamble their way to various destinations. Created by travel industry veterans Dalene and Pete Heck, the game’s motto is “the more challenging a destination is to get to from North America, the more points it’s worth.” Bragging points aside, your purchase will also lead to another win. With every game purchase, a tree will be planted via Ecodrive. Suitable for ages 10 and up.
Available through Uncommon Goods’ website, this pocket-sized card deck by nomadic couple Tiago Gomes and Liza Zuberi consists of 50 cards with challenges that would take travelers out of their comfort zone by immersing themselves more within a destination. Challenges range from finding out about a secret local spot, to learning a local craft, to having a GPS-free, sans-technology day. Others include mailing a postcard to yourself and taking a cooking class within your destination. Suitable for ages 15 and up.
Produced by the Chicago business, Transit Tees, this board game centers on an itinerary challenge around the Windy City that could throw their plans for a loop (yes, this pun was intended). It’s described as having players making their way around Chicago using the “EL” trains to visit places of interest and return to the city’s State/Lake station before anyone else does. However,
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