Travel games are nothing new, I remember as a kid playing checkers on a miniature board in the back of our family van. Travel Guess Who was one of my favorites. Sometimes on a long trip we’d bring a deck of cards, but without fail by the end of our trip we were playing 49 card pickup. It seemed impossible to keep all 52 cards together. Even the well designed travel games had small pieces to lose.  Those travel games are long gone, in my opinion, its a good thing.  No one wants to have loose game pieces to keep track of in the back seat of a car or on an airplane.

Of course as electronics kept on getting smaller and smaller, electronic versions of some of these travel games started popping up, and now we have a plethora of options that offer hours of mindless entertainment. Especially since the launch of the iPhone 3G and the App Store last year.

I can tell you that traveling has not been the same for me during the past year. I have tons of travel game options now. Classics like Connect Four, Yahtzee, Scrabble and Uno, all have resurfaced. Lately my favorite has been Scrabble. Hilarye and I play it together to pass the time in airports and on planes. Its so fun we’ve occasionally caught ourselves wasting an hour or two on a normal weeknight fighting our vocabularies to the death.

If you’re anything like me and need something entertaining to stimulate your mind on the way from here to there, check out what is now available in the travel game marketplace. In the biggest telemarketer voice I have “You’ll be glad you did!”

Tags: Apps, iPhone, travel games

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