Best Board Games to Play in the Car in 2022

The Forbidden Island board game is a family game that suits ages 10 and above. It is a cooperative game where you follow the lead, yet get to make your own decisions.

The game players is to strategize and play together to collect the treasures of the island, therefore you need to work together to win. You need to get 4 treasures and make an escape before the flooding, so you win or lose together as a team.

Key features

• 2 to 4 players.
• Suggested game for above 10 years of age.
• Rich and detailed illustrations.
• Innovative rules.
• Collaborative play.
• Several possibilities using cards and tiles.
• Reinforces visual descriptions, strategical thinking, and teamwork.
• Winner of Brainy Games Mensa Favorite 2010
• Adventurous and exciting when capturing sacred treasures.

It is great collaborative game that lets you work together as a team to find treasure and reach the borders of the Archean’s ancient mystical empire. 

The game is designed to work through collaboratively instead of competing with other players. Fun game to play as a team with younger children. 

Carcassonne is a German-style game that was recently published in English. It is a great family and adult board game that requires strategy with an average playtime of 45 minutes.

The board game players gradually build a medieval landscape with the progress of the game. In the beginning, there’s a single terrain face up tiled and 71 others are face down for the player’s draw. 

A new terrain tile is drawn and placed next to face-up tiles that provides extending features on the touching tiles. The tiles connect fields, cities to cities, and roads to roads. 

Some moves can generate followers too. At the end, the player with the most followers and all features with the last tile placed is the winner.

Key features

• 2 to 5 players.
• Winner of Deutscher Spiele Preis and Spiel des Jahres awards.
• Named after Carcassonne medieval fort.
• Redesigned rulebook.
• Introduces mini-expansion of the Abbot.
• Adds rivers to the new version.

This game requires a big table to enjoy the most because of the endless configurations of the tiles. We recommend playing when the car is parked or even have large backseat table to play this game on. 

It’s a perfect introductory strategy board game that uses simple rules that everyone loves to play.

Wit's End is an entertaining and challenging game.  It is a brain teaser that engages and tests your information with fun-filled problem-solving. So, think hard and have fun while road tripping!

Answer the queries with the mind-challenging teaser, figure out the sequence, wild card, and odd-one-out categories. With each die-roll, you move on the track and answer a query. 

The players begin at the outermost ring and the target is to reach the center square. The first player to get to the center wins.

Key features

• 2 to 10 players.
• Queries are filled with brainteasers, riddles, and trivia on current affairs, geography, history, science, culture, arts, etc.,
• For ages 16 and over.
• Award-winning board game for party nights or road trips.
• Suited for team play.

The game comes with self explanatory board and dice that you can move  one or the other direction. 

It is pretty basic concept to understand. The questions are challenging and makes you learn information as you go. 

Bezzerwizzer is a Denmark quiz game with 3000 queries in English and 5000 queries in German that come under 20 categories. In German, the name means “know-it-all.”

When your turn comes, a category is drawn from the tiles and they are sorted per the player’s knowledge. If you have the answer, you get a point, and for the best question you get 4 points. 

There are 3 tokens for every player. You can swap categories if you get Z as your token. B token is if you know the answer to get extra points.

Key Features

• Ages 10 to 15 years old
• The gameplay has trickery, trivia, and tactics.
• Friendly and knowledgeable competition.
• Game of tenaciousness and wit.
• Nominated for Norway Party Game of the Year award.

The trivia has 20 different categories to choose from. The tactics is that let you steal questions from your opponents and also swap for categories that you know the best. 

The trickery is you can trick your competitor into believing what they think are your strengths. Everyone will have a great time by simply going after categories they know best to win this game.

Hedbanz have both kids and adults versions featuring a fast-paced guessing game. From animals to food and objects, there are various categories to challenge each other with.

Guess the picture from Hedbanz by asking a quick question to determine “what am I?” using yes or no responses. 

It is a family-guessing game and can be played with two to six players. Each guess will let you score and earning 3 scoring badges wins the game.

Key features

• Comes with animal, object, and food picture cards.
• Categories are simple and easy to follow.
• Race against the sand timer with your quick wit.
• Query to guess the identity.
• Educational and informative.
• Family-friendly game.

Education game to play with children in the car. It develops reasoning skills and creating questioning that leads to answers. 

Let your children practice their critical thinking skills with Hedbanz.

Buzz Word is an addictive guessing game that makes your brain alert.  It involves teamwork to create very fun gameplay. The game does not require assembling pieces, so simply open the box and start the game.

Divide the players into 2 teams. One member of your team attempts to provide clues with up to 10 words. Other members of the team should be able to guess the phrase including the buzzword. 

Missed clues are counted by the opponent team and solved clues get one point each. The opponent team gets a chance to answer missed clues in 45 seconds. 

50 points for the team is the winner.

Key features

• Ages 10 and over
• 4 or more players
• It is a brain buzzer.
• 380 Sets of Clues, 10 Scoring Cards, 190 Cards, Sand Timer, Rules and Scoreboard, Marker.

This game is geared toward the teenagers and adults since some of the questions or clues are more difficult. 

For younger children or middle school kids, it may take a while to pick up the game and direction. However, it is great family and friends game to play all together. 

Codenames is known as a party game that requires puzzles to be solved. However, it is short and quick game that can be played in the car to ease your boredom.  It is a challenging social word game with a simple rules that everyone can participate in while road tripping.

The game is split into blue and red with each color having a team leader. The goal is leading the team for a win. 

There will be 25 cards initially with various words and colors and the color is only seen by the team leader. Let the team members get the cards of their color for a win.

Key features:

• 2 to 8 players.
• Teammates reference their agents with codenames.
• Rival spymasters with 25 agents' secret identities.
• Teams' race to make contact with agents.
• Spymasters provide a word clue that can point to several words on the board.
• Teammates guess words of their color.

This games is fun to play with two or more people. The more players you have the more deceptive the game becomes. 

It’s genially planned with twist of simplicity. So, if you are on a long car ride, teach the rules in under 5 minutes and you’ll get loads of fun.

The Skull game is way to learn but difficult to win. It’s a game of bluff, lie, and peace through deceptions and applied strategy in gameplay that lasts an average of 30 minutes.

Player will each have 3 rose cards and 1 skull. Rose cards are safe, but if you expose the hidden skull to your player, then you will loose one of your own cards. 

There are lots of false cards so be aware what you select. Flipping roses twice and you will win, and if you find a skull then you’ll lose a disc. The tactic is winning with the least number of cards at the table. 

Key features

• Recommend ages from 13 and above.
• Fun to play with 3 to 6 players.
• Deep strategy and tactics bluffing game.
• Easy to learn and pass through by piercing the lies.
• If you pass a skull the consequences are harsh.

It is quick to learn and plays really fast. The game itself is basic bluffing game and comes with beautiful artwork on each disk. 

If you are looking for a breeze to play, this makes for some laughs and fun as you try your best to outwit the other players. 

A sequence is a combination of card and board game that is easy enough for children and challenging for adults. Additionally,  it is a perfect gameplay to develop STEM skills and strategy. 

Simply play a card from your hand and place a chip on a corresponding space on the board. 

The players create columns, diagonals, and rows of 5 linked checkers in competition. The game ends when specified connections have been reached.

Key features

• 5 cards in a row is a sequence.
• Each player wants to score a sequence before the opponent does.
• Exciting and requires strategy for both kids and adults.
• Ages 7 and over with 2 to 12 players
• For young children in the group, team up with adults to play.

The board comes with foldable feature that is perfect for travel in the car or airplane. It is easy to learn and provides different gameplay every time. 

This Sequence game resembles a combination of bingo and poker.

Secret Hitler is a betrayal and political intrigue set in Germany in the 1930s.  The fast paced game requires the players to figure out the hidden identity and social deduction. The board game is made in high quality and designs with foil inside of the box and beautiful wood touch on the pieces.

Each player is secretly assigned as a team into liberals and fascists, while one player becomes the secret Hitler. Liberals must find the secret Hitler before the time is up.

Key features

• A fast-paced game with betrayal and deception.
• Hidden secret and roles for 5-10 players.
• Liberals have to find the secret Hitler.
• Recommended age is 17 years and up.
• Use accompanying app with narration at the beginning of the game to make it even more fun.

The Secret Hitler game is perfect group game for family and friends. The game resembles the Mafia game. Fun strategy game that can turn your best friend into enemies. 

To fully enjoy this game, 7 or more players will make the most fun.