h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've just read the front page article on NIT (this won't be front page any more, just search it) and it reminded me of a similar game my family kind of invented. Anyone who is quite bored enough to be looking at my journel will switch off promptly...It worked like this, one player would select two likely looking letters from the destination (say Cranbrook) maybe CR, and then we would look for words which had those two letters in them. The letters don't have to be next to each other either in the destination or in the words

For example, crisis and crossing are fine, as are cardiac, rock and heretical. The only problem is, you have to see them written down somewhere, and words can only be used one (although plurals and verb forms count as different words)

You can either do this as a point scoring game or as a collaborative effort - in either case the competition can get quite stiff. If scoring bonus points should be awarded to the person who first spots the desitination.


As a safety note, the driver should not play. Particularly if it's my dad.