8 games that make waiting in the Gotthard traffic jam bearable
22.3.2016
Translation: machine translated
Well, are you going on Easter holidays too? By car? To the south? Then you've come to the right place. Because with the Easter bunny comes the Easter traffic jam. This year the forecast is 10-12 kilometres. Waiting time: several hours.
Of course, you can use your time stuck in traffic to answer the latest business emails, refine your dissertation thesis or ponder whether you've really switched off the oven at home.
Nice as we are, we've put together some alternative ways for you to pass the time.
1. who am I?
One of the group thinks up an acquaintance or celebrity, the others try to find out who the chosen person is by asking questions. You can only answer yes or no. This classic game can of course also be played without playing cards.
More ideas:
2 Yes, no, maybe!
Someone pretends to be the game master and asks the others questions. Anything is allowed as an answer - except the words "yes", "no" and "maybe". Anyone who uses one of the three words is out. The last player wins.
3. invent stories
Everyone makes a sentence. The next player continues the story. Example: "Martin is stuck in a traffic jam." "Suddenly a UFO arrives." "Donald Trump gets out of the UFO." "He asks: Is there any pizza around here?"
As a resource for even more stories:
4. car number bingo
All you need for this game is paper, a pen and lots of cars. And there are plenty of them around you. Here's how it works: Everyone writes down lots of car numbers that they see ("AG", "ZG", "BS", ...), for example six of them. The driver then calls out the canton abbreviations that you drive past. The first person to tick them all off shouts "Bingo" and wins.
Variant: Everyone chooses a colour or a brand and counts the matching cars. Whoever has 20 points first wins.
5. I'm packing my suitcase
A classic memory game: The first player starts and says: "I'm going on holiday, I'm packing my suitcase...". Then it goes round clockwise and everyone adds more items. Whoever can remember the most items wins.
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6th Hampelino
Well, you wouldn't want to play this with five people in a Fiat Punto. But in family cars, you can definitely play a movement game for a change to wake up those sleepy feet. And Hampelino doesn't even need much space. Two cards show different parts of the body - can you touch them? [[Productlist: 2463498]]
7 I can see something you can't
And here's another classic, which is particularly useful when you're creeping along the motorway: Someone starts and spots an object outside the vehicle. For example, a mountain, a sheep or a flag. He or she says: "I see something that you don't see, and that is ..." and names the colour of the object. The others try to guess what the object is.
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8. last letter equals first letter
You define a category, for example food. The first player starts with A for pineapple. The next player must therefore find a food that begins with "S": Schoggi. The next player has to find something starting with "I" and so on.
Bonus: These games definitely don't belong in traffic jams!
We don't want you to get knocked out on the journey there.
The Rubik's Cube reliably drives me crazy.
Colleague Irene also suggests the Wisdom Ball, the Rubik's Cube's evil twin. Which we definitely won't be getting ourselves.
Aurel Stevens
Chief Editor
aurel.stevens@digitecgalaxus.chI'm the master tamer at the flea circus that is the editorial team, a nine-to-five writer and 24/7 dad. Technology, computers and hi-fi make me tick. On top of that, I’m a rain-or-shine cyclist and generally in a good mood.
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