Family Car Games | iPhone/iPod App | Review and Giveaway
July 16, 2009 by admin - Jennifer
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Family Car Games gives you instructions for 100 gear-free games the whole family can play! Guessing games, word games, singing games, memory games, games for under 5s, games using the car radio, lots of brand new games, a few old favorites…minivan-tested, all ways to have FUN…and bring your family closer together.
This is a perfect app for your iPhone or iPod that will definitely keep the kids entertained and stop them from fighting with each other. You can use it on long trips or short trips to the local grocery store. I recently had the chance to review this app and used it for the first time on a car trip to run errands, not a long trip but I can tell you it was a quiet trip with the kids playing nice and laughing. I love that you can just shake your iPhone or iPod and the game spins to pick your game. When you select the game it lands on you get a screen with all the directions on how to play the game. It gives you the Difficulty, Type, Length and # of players needed for the chosen game.
This is a great idea and I am actually looking forward to our long road trip that is coming up now that I have tested this app out on my kids. They love it and even ask for it now even if we are just going down the road. Which for me is a blessing. I love this app and it will provide hours of entertainment for your whole family. I have even been given the chance to show one of the Dirty Shirt readers just how much fun it is by offering a giveaway for a copy of Family Car Games for your iPhone or iPod. See rules below to enter:
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This giveaway will run through midnight on July 31, with winner being announced the morning of August 1. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to everyone.
don’t know if it’s an official game but we count how many “slug bugs” or vw bugs we can find.
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Well…since we created the app Family Car Games, you know our repetoire…but one of my favorite of our games is the radio game, Catch that Song. You put the radio on scan, then you get one point for knowing either the artist or title of the song playing, and get 3 points for knowing both.
Works best in an area with lots of stations…and also helps to have a teenager and a baby boomer parent to catch the classic rock.
And you have to have a quick hand to skip any unacceptable lyrics.
But most of our energy is spent going, “Wait, wait, wait!!”
The truth about these games is that a lot of them are fun for adults…my husband and I had some airport waits this spring, and played Pica Firma Nada a lot! And “My Grandma is So Weird” is one I created that may take a while to figure out, but really makes you think…it’s another favorite.
As a family we enjoyed Trivial Pursuit on long driving trips.Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.
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My children have a game where when we pass under a bridge they try to remember and say aloha.
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Our favorite game is the Alphabet game. We each try to find the letters of the alphabet, who ever gets to the end first wins.
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Our favorite travel car game is searching for license plates from all over the US.
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We always play the alphabet game – find something that starts with an A, then a B, etc. We sometimes play the game of finding out how many different state licenses we can find.
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We are not very sophisticated. We play i spy
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We, too used to play the alphabet game, finding words beginning with the letters of the alphabet; we also used to sing a lot, each of us picking a song, then all of us singing along — NOT that we were at all very good!!
Thanks for this great giveaway, we just got our I-Phone (yeah, we area a little behind on the times, haha).
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have to say that the game most often played in the car is still ‘i spy’
we always check out the cars license plates
Our favorite game is called “spot” where we see who can find the most yellow vehicles (not counting taxis or school buses) and when you see one you have to be the first to yell “spot”
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We always play the ABC or the license plate game on long trips.
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Our family absolutely LOVES to play the “License Plate Game”. When we visit popular vacation destinations, we search for license plates from all of the 50 states. We came close at 48 states during one family getaway, but are still searching for the full 50! It always keeps everyone excited during tedious car trips =]
The alphabet game, its so much fun!
My daughter loves to play an alphabet game, where you have to find a word somewhere (billboards, businesses, signs, etc) that starts with “a”, then with “b”, then “c” and so forth.
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We always just called it “Alphabet”. We looked for the letters of the alphabet in order.
This is so old-school, but it’s always been eye-spy (but you’ve got to be quick)!
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I print off travel bingo cards for long trips and hand them out. We also like playing I Spy and naming a city or place that starts with the last letter of the last city or place (i.e. Moscow, Warsaw…).
The game we would play is make a list of differt things like, a man crossing the street or lady with broken arm,or rest stop,then who every found everything on the list would win…
We love to play I-Spy. We play this all the time while driving, not just on road trips. Also we look at the letters on liscense plates and try to make sentences. (ie: ISAC= I see a crocodile). It’s fun and creative.
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We love to play the license plate game. We try to find license plates from all the states. Once we finally found Alaska in the parking lot of Disney World!!
we try to find liscense plates from everywhere and count the color of cars on the road
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Great to imagine all the families driving down the road playing…if you’d like some new games to play — equipment-free games like I Spy….I hope you try our Family Car Games app.