Games that will make your long road journeys entertaining.

Traveling by road in India is a time-consuming affair. While you could enjoy it initially, constantly staring out of your window won’t help much. Since you are pretty much stuck on a commute for at least a good few hours. You might as well make it fun. However, if you are traveling by bus with your friends, we have your back. Here is a list of games for a bus trip with friends.

Choose your category and you’re good to go!

Question Games

Get to know your closest buddies as no one else can. Not to mention these question games can help you know what your friend thinks, what are their secrets, and what kind of equation you share with your friend circle. 

• Would you rather: Give your friends circle alternatives and ask them to choose anyone out of the following. 
• Never have I ever: Ask people strange questions and the one who would have done that strange thing takes a shot or sip of a drink. 
• 20 questions: You or someone has to think of something and keep it to yourself or themselves. The group will try to ask 20 questions based on what they think you or another member of the group is thinking. 
• Kiss, marry, avoid: Ask everyone turn by turn about who would they kiss, marry or avoid amongst the group and get ready for some controversial answers.
• Pick one out of the two: Ask someone to pick one out of the two options you give them. 
• What if: Put people in scary weird or strange situations and know what option would they choose that would be favourable to them. 
• Riddles: Instead of telling everyone directly, give them strange similarities to guess the right thing. 
• Guess the object: Similar to riddles but applicable to objects ask your friends in a cringe way about day to day objects. 
• Who am I?: These could be based on anyone be it cartoons, movie characters, politicians, celebrities. Etc

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Card and Chit games

All you need for these games is a few sheets of paper and a pen. While in the case of card games a deck of cards, a stack of UNO, and guess games could be done using pictures on phone.

• UNO:  UNO is a unique card game different from the normal card deck. Match the numbers or colours of the card and the person with only one card remaining says uno. If the person puts the last card down too, the person wins.
• The normal cards deck: Playing cards can be fun in a bus journey. Just shuffle, distribute, and play!
• Do as I say: This is a chit game where chits have certain instructions written. The person who picks the chit will have to perform the task in the chit.
• Who’s the culprit: Originally a 4 player game, players have to pick a chit each and one of the chits has culprit written over it. The culprit has to silently kill someone by tapping on them. But the person they kill is a police inspector in their chit the culprit loses. The police have to find who the culprit is by guessing.
• Dumb charades: The chits have movies written over them and the one who picks has to enact the movie while other guesses without saying a word.
• Guess the actor or actress: Similar to dumb charades, these hits have names of actors or actresses and the one who picks has to enact them while others guess.
• Give a famous campaign from the party you get: A game of politics, your chit would have the name of a political party. You have to say a jingle or slogan by the party while others guess which party it is.
• Pictionary: One person holds a pluck card on their forehead and doesn’t see it while the other sees it and tries to enact it for the one holding it to understand. This pluck card only has a picture on it.
• Bingo: The traditional number game where the one who cancels all the numbers called out in a row or column wins.
• Pick an object from someone without them noticing: This is more like stealing but only for fun. Pick the object mentioned in the chit and the one who picks all objects wins.

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Singing and song-based games

Who doesn’t like a good melodious round with a few laughs on bad notes? With this in mind these are the best games for a bus trip with friends.

• Antakshari: Players sing from the last letter of the song where the first person who sings ends it.
• Guess the tune: A person hums a tune and other people guess the song.
• Do the hook step of one player whispers a song in the ear of another and that player performs the hook step. Everyone else is supposed to guess the hook step.
• Name two same-named songs: A person has to come up with two songs. They have to share the same name or have the same word in common.
• Name one original remake of the song: As the name suggests the person has to find a remake of the original song too.
• Guess the ad jingle: for eg: Ting ting ting ting is the jingle for Britannia. The Player has to sing while others guess.
• Pass the parcel: Everyone has to pass the parcel when the music is on and when it stops the person with the parcel is punished. Punishments are singing or dancing or saying a joke etc.
• Complete the conversation in songs: One person starts with a random sentence of a song and then everyone else adds up a new song and continues for it to make sense.
• Complete the lyrics: One person sings the lyrics to a song everyone adds up the lyrics of the same song turn by turn.
• Who is the singer: One-person plays or sings the song and everyone has to guess who the singer is.

Movie Trivia and Quiz Games

This is your chance to redeem yourself as a true Bollywood enthusiast and lover. However, you may not be on Koffee with Karan but you can have an experience with your friends, choose these games for a bus trip with friends!

•  Kaun Banega Crorepati: You may not win a crore but can win this general knowledge-based quiz. The person who asks questions with ask an MCQ and you have to pick one right option out of 4.
• How well do you know your favourite?: You will be asked 10 questions based on your or your friend’s favourite actor and actress by your friends.
• How well do you know this movie?: You will be asked 10 questions based on your or your friends favourite movie.
• Name the actor or actress and describe their character and let people guess the name of the character: The friend circle will have to guess their on screen character name based on what you enact or hints you give.
• A place and movie: You will give a place and your circle will tell you a movie shot in that locality.
• Name the directors film: Ask your friends to name 5 movies by famous Bollywood directors.
• Quote a dialogue and guess the film: You could quote multiple dialogues.
• Pop quiz on kapoors: Each person can take turns to ask and answer questions on the most loved family in the show business.
• Walk the talk: Walk down the aisle of your bus by enacting a celebrities body language and let people guess.
• Read a book as a celebrity and let people guess the actor: You could use their voice, their style, etc.

Fastest first and rapid games

Everything gets intense when you don’t let people give a lot of thought to their answers. However, these rapid games will leave you wanting more.

• First things first: One person will ask you about random things and you have to tell them the first thing that comes to your mind.
• Chain game: First you pick a category like sports, movies, etc. Then you start with one person saying one thing related to it. The next person says another related term but from the last letter of the term that the person before them used.
• I spy: This one’s about giving people vague hints of what it could be. While they guess what exactly you must’ve seen around.
• Call and ask the person to say hey karan it’s me: 2 people have to make 3 calls to someone who is not on the bus and ask them to say hey karan it’s me. Yes live your dreams.
• Koffee with Karan rapid fire: How can we forget this epic game. You will be asked weird questions related to your personal life and preferences. You have to answer rapidly.
• Say the opposite: You have to give antonyms to the words the person in front of you says.
• Don’t say yes no or maybe: Questions that have these answers but you have to answer avoid these rhetorics. 
• Alphabet game: One person starts with a word with A and other continues with a related word but with B and so on.
• 2 truths and 1 lie: You will be asked 3 questions and you however, have to say which 2 are true facts and which 1 is false.
• Build a story: In a chit you will be given a context to start building a story. The first person gives a sentence; and the rest keep building a story by adding more sentences.

We hope you have so many games for your next bus trip with friends. Long journeys will never be boring again. Entertainment is always an option and the best company knows how to keep themselves entertained. 

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