This is basically a fantastic musical driving game a few of us invented at the weekend.
(Well, we thought it was fantastic, you might think otherwise).
What you’ll need:
- iPod (or other portable music player) – the bigger the better, anyone with a Classic can consider it money well spent since the invention of Leap-pod.
- Car
- Method of connecting iPod to car (bluetooth, fm dongle, cable etc)
Preparation:
Set your iPod to shuffle, sit someone with good arithmetic skills and eyesight in the passenger seat and hand them the iPod.
Rules:
When you overtake a car, take the last digit from their registration plate and skip forward that many songs (Do this even during a current song).
When a car overtakes you, skip back the number of tracks equal to the last digit of their registration plate (you’ll need to add one to this number because your first press back will leave you on the current song).
That’s pretty much it.
You might not hear all of many songs depending on traffic, or you might hear all of every song if you meet no cars. We played on the M6 to and from Galway and it worked quite well. Sometimes we’d pass two or more cars and have to combine all their reg numbers.
Of course, additional rules can be added as necessary. Foreign regs with letters can be translated to corresponding number (A=1, B=2 etc). And you may want to give each passenger one pass/lock on long journeys if they particularly like/dislike a certain song.
Having to skip away from a good song isn’t always fun, and other times you’ll be stuck with Westlife (which no one but me appreciated) or that stupid Fireflies song (which I hated), but that’s how the game goes, as the proverb says: “Leap-pod is a cruel mistress.”