Do you play word games in the car with your kids or friends to pass the time on a long drive or waiting in an airport? When my kids were younger, we would play an ABC game. The first player got “A” and had to select a name, name of spouse, product you sell, and place you’d live. Maybe this is one of the early forms of the “you-have-to-get-married” indoctrination. Anyway, you’d say something like this:
“A my name is Abigail.
My husband’s name is Andre.
We come from Argentina.
And we sell Apples.”
We’d say it with the initial sound bolded like that. Then the next player would have “B” and so on.

As my kids have gotten older, I have attempted to jazz up our waiting game by requesting other information in alphabetical order. Once in a restaurant with only my son and his buddy, waiting for the dinner order was getting to be a stretch. So we played most of the Alphabet Game like this:
“A my superhero name is Amazonia,
My super power is Apparation
My arch enemy is Average Man”

Of course that was my first example. My son’s and his buddy’s turns sounded a little different:
“B my superhero name is Ballistic Bounce Boy
My super power is Bionic Bending
My arch Enemy is Big Butthead.”

Tonight we tried it this way and got some pretty good laughs. I love laughing with my kids. We can get pretty silly.
“C I would never want my name to be Cruella.
I would never put a Chipmunk in my mouth.
And I would never want to live in a Cardboard box.”


I know several of you have waiting games you play with your kids. We have some time in the car coming up. It would be fun to have a bigger repertoire of games. Can you share your waiting game?