From the suitcase to the customs desk. Lands well with a group that likes telling stories from the road.
A set about the journey: transport, lodging, documents and everything you meet between leaving home and coming back. Half of these words will drag somebody's story out with them — which is fine, that is rather the point.
Travel is a shared experience with wildly different details. One player remembers a night train, another a queue at passport control. That makes the clues alive: instead of a dictionary meaning people describe their own trip, and the team recognises the situation before the word.
Familiar words that land on the first clue. For warming up, for kids and for mixed groups.
suitcase, bag, backpack, ticket, passport, money, map, compass, road, motorway, bridge, tunnel, station, airport, port, stop, bus, train, plane, ship, ferry, taxi, car, bicycle, hotel, room, key, bed, shower, towel, breakfast, restaurant, cafe, shop, market, souvenir, camera, phone, charger, headphones, sunglasses, hat, shorts, jacket, umbrella, trainers, tent, sleepingbag, torch, knife, water, thermos, sandwich, sea, beach, sand, wave, mountains, forest, river, lake, waterfall, island, desert, city, village, museum, castle, square, street, park, fountain, church, tower, border, visa, queue, currency, exchange, language, dictionary, weather, sun, rain, wind, heat, cold, holiday, vacation, excursion, guide, group, friends, family, memories, postcard, roadside, campfire, sunrise, ferryman
Takes a few sentences and some imagination. The default setting for an ordinary evening.
airline, hitchhiking, luggage, booking, brochure, bay, voucher, terminal, voyage, concierge, hostel, deposit, declaration, delta, roadworks, commuter, expedition, reserve, checkin, cabin, canyon, berth, camping, container, cruise, resort, liner, location, itinerary, lighthouse, customs, embankment, rucksack, naturalisation, lodging, viewpoint, goggles, rental, offshore, deck, panorama, guesthouse, gangway, immigration, pass, flight, platform, transfer, chairlift, plan, couchette, plateau, trip, boarding, permit, hike, arrival, shelter, conductor, promotion, farewell, guidebook, registration, departure, roaming, backpacker, saloon, sanatorium, safari, switchback, moneybox, cliff, trail, parking, insurance, steward, giftshop, timetable, gate, transit, shuttle, tourism, tourist, gorge, photographer, dormitory, ridge, charter, trunk, barrier, route, stamp, navigator, fair, crib, yacht, bungalow, geyser, porter, sunbed
Rare or abstract words. More failed rounds, and more laughing at them.
accreditation, acclimatisation, apartments, atoll, authenticity, multiday, bathyscaphe, bivouac, freightflow, cyclotourism, verticality, involuntary, endurance, secondment, visarequirement, drainage, gastronomic, geographic, geolocation, hydrogeology, glamping, downshifting, deportation, destination, jetlag, discomfort, dispatching, roadbuilding, evacuation, ecotourism, tourguide, expatriate, extreme, ethnography, development, suburban, roundtrip, wintering, wayside, individual, insider, infrastructure, funicular, cadastral, cabotage, cartography, kayaking, quotas, cluster, coworking, comfortable, consulate, continental, frontier, crosscultural, landscaping, legalisation, areastudies, logistics, routing, migration, intercontinental, multimodal, navigation, urgent, nonresident, nomadism, overlanding, orienteering, pilgrimage, passportisation, carrier, reinsurance, planning, traveller, indicator, embassy, borderland, checkpoint, repatriation, conservation, retreat, reception, selfisolation, seasonality, caving, standardisation, insurer, sublease, overland, territorial, crossborder, transcontinental, trekking, chartering, hostelling, civilisational, schengen, stratification, visaissuance
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