Need help with Children's game name

[DWSTXS]

Okay..........in my novel, set in 1969...........my characters are in a car on the highway.....and the 2 boys are playing a game........

we played this all the time.....but I can't remember what we called it, or the rules.........

Any help will be appreciated............Thanks in advance!

The game is spotting a VW....or a car from a different state....something like that....at any rate....whoever spots the car/etc....gets to knuckle-punch the other one in the arm.........


anybody?

[Rolling Thunder]

punchbug

[Danger Jane]

If you see a VW bug, you punch somebody with clothes the same color and say "Punch buggy!" I guess you could modify it?

[stormie]

Yep, we played that, but, as a family of four girls--no boys--we didn't knuckle-punch. Much. I can't remember the name of it, either. Was it called I Spy (such as in: "I spy an ....) and the first person to "spy" it gets a turn.

[DWSTXS]

That is SO F*****g amazing! LOL

I knew that, no matter what question I asked, I'd have an answer with 5 minutes...as it turned out...it was more like 1 1/2 minutes......

thanks Danger Jane! (are you a super-hero?) (well, super-heroine?)

Thanks Rllgthunder! ( from the 70's concerts by Bob Dylan? The Rolling Thunder review?)

[Danger Jane]

thanks Danger Jane! (are you a super-hero?) (well, super-heroine?)

Well....


yes.

:D

[DWSTXS]

If anyone knows of any other 'highway games' that we played in the 60's.....like 'punchbug'...........please let me know.......

[Judg]

That "we" played? Well, we played the geography game. You'd name any geographical thing - city, province, state, country, river, whatever - say "United States" and the next person would have to name another one starting with the last letter, in this case an S. Saskatchewan. New York. Kansas. And so on. It become quite a challenge to find yet another place that started with A. Or X. Or Y.

We'd also see if we could name all the provinces and then all the states (we're Canadian). We'd keep track of license plates we spotted (where they were from). And when all else failed, my mother hauled out song sheets. This is how I knew the words to "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" and "When You Wore a Tulip" and "Listen to the Mockingbird" before I was 10... Plus all the kids' songs ever written and Burl Ives' entire repertoire and...

We took long trips.

[windyrdg]

What about the license plate game where you're trying to spot a state nobody's seen yet."Look, there's a green Chevy from Rhode Island!"

[nerds]

During the '60s on car trips we did general trivia questions, played I Spy, the geography game, and Count the Cows. There were still lots of cows on lots of small farms then, just about anywhere you went outside of cities. You counted the cows on your side of the car only, and sometimes you really had to hurry to get them all. The sibling(s) on the other side would be counting with you to make sure you didn't cheat, and vice-versa. Meanwhile they're missing the cows on their side so of course you say nothing. If you passed a cemetery on your side all your cows were dead and you were back to zero, but only if your opposition saw the cemetery and shouted it out. So you kept it zipped when one was coming up and would attempt various diversionary tactics such as punching or tickling to keep them from seeing it, all the while looking for a cemetery on their side. Whoever had the most cows by the time the car was parked won.

We loved Count the Cows. Tons of fun.

[jannawrites]

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The game is spotting a VW....or a car from a different state....something like that....at any rate....whoever spots the car/etc....gets to knuckle-punch the other one in the arm.........


anybody?

We called it Slug Bug.

"Slug Bug yellow!" *thwap!*

:D

[chevbrock]

I am embarassed to say that I and my husband still play "punch buggy"! Now my three year old son is learning!

We played 'I spy' and all that stuff, but there was another game that I don't think has been mentioned called "spot" or "spotto". You have to name something particular and the first one to yell "spotto" when they pass one wins the round.

[chevbrock]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. We changed the punchbug rules somewhat. You have to name the colour straight away, otherwise you get punched. And if you see a convertible you get to give the other person two punches

[~grace~]

The game is spotting a VW....or a car from a different state....something like that....at any rate....whoever spots the car/etc....gets to knuckle-punch the other one in the arm........

Slugbug! Slugbug! It was well past 1969 when I played it, though, so maybe the name changed at some point...

That "we" played? Well, we played the geography game. You'd name any geographical thing - city, province, state, country, river, whatever - say "United States" and the next person would have to name another one starting with the last letter, in this case an S. Saskatchewan. New York. Kansas. And so on. It become quite a challenge to find yet another place that started with A. Or X. Or Y.

I LOVED this game!! My brother had all these weird Mexican place names memorized though, that either started or ended with X, so he'd always win. :(


We called it Slug Bug.

"Slug Bug yellow!" *thwap!*

:D

Slugbug! Slugbug!

:poke:


We called it SLUG BUG also.

We also played I SPY.

We also played the LICENSE PLATE game. You take turns trying to get through the alphabet first from the letters on the license plate and the license plate holder.

We did a variation of this just called the Alphabet Game. The letters could be anywhere. I think this one works better if you're driving across, oh, Nevada where there are few signs.


All the memories.... sigh....so many trips...

[Judg]

I didn't hear about slug bug until the 90's I think, from my kids, and they called it punch buggy.

[Soccer Mom]

We called it "Slugbug" too. Oh, and a car with one headlight was a "pediddle". Same rules, only we played it at night.

Pediddle! :Smack:

[scribbler1382]

We call it Punchbuggy, but I never played it myself as a kid. My daughter plays it now. But the bug has to be yellow. I don't know why.

On long car drives when I was a kid, we used to play "touch your brother and then pretend you didn't" or "stick your reeking sock under your brother's sleeping nose". Ah, the good ol' days.

[jannawrites]

I didn't hear about slug bug until the 90's I think...

It was in the '80s, midwest America, for us.

[reigningcatsndogs]

That "we" played? Well, we played the geography game. You'd name any geographical thing - city, province, state, country, river, whatever - say "United States" and the next person would have to name another one starting with the last letter, in this case an S. Saskatchewan. New York. Kansas. And so on. It become quite a challenge to find yet another place that started with A. Or X. Or Y.

We'd also see if we could name all the provinces and then all the states (we're Canadian). We'd keep track of license plates we spotted (where they were from). And when all else failed, my mother hauled out song sheets. This is how I knew the words to "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" and "When You Wore a Tulip" and "Listen to the Mockingbird" before I was 10... Plus all the kids' songs ever written and Burl Ives' entire repertoire and...

We took long trips.

Is there anything BUT long trips in Canada?? We did the same things -- it's kinda spooky! We spiced it up though, cause we did the Mitch Miller version of the songs!!

[jannawrites]

*in singsong voice*

"Ninety-nine bottles of beer/milk/pop on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer/milk/pop..."

[Soccer Mom]

*in singsong voice*

"Ninety-nine bottles of beer/milk/pop on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer/milk/pop..."

:runs screaming from thread:

[IceCreamEmpress]

Punchbuggy. You "slugbug" people are weird ;)

Yeah, "padiddle" for when you see a car with one headlight.

And the alphabet game--you have to find the letters of the alphabet, in succession, from road signs as you pass. When Esso changed its name to Exxon, that made the game much easier!

[scribbler1382]

Thought of another one. Can't remember the name of it, but you pick a subject (like States) and someone says one. Then you have to say one that starts with the last letter of the one that was just said.

So if I say "Alaska" you can say "Alabama" and so on.

[jannawrites]

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Yeah, "padiddle" for when you see a car with one headlight.

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Now for that one we called out "Popeye!"

[Judg]

Is there anything BUT long trips in Canada?? We did the same things -- it's kinda spooky! We spiced it up though, cause we did the Mitch Miller version of the songs!!
Maybe we're related and we just haven't seen through each other's forum identities yet! ;)