Beat The Bordem - Car Cricket

Ipads and DVD players are banned in our car, even on longer trips. We don’t want the kids to have their eyes glued to a screen. Over our Easter travels we dragged out a classic travel game to keep them occupied – Car Cricket.  It has been a winner! It’s a game we played as kids on trips to Melbourne. Nowadays it is a bit harder with dual carriageways, they just need to count faster! Most of the trips we took over the holidays were on single lane roads so it made it a little easier.

How We Play

Car -1 run

Ute or Big 4WD – 4 runs

Car towing a trailer, boat etc 4 runs

Car towing a Caravan -6 runs

Truck – 6 runs

Red Car or a Motorbike – Out

When in a 60km or lower speed zone, No play.

Before starting it is a good idea to set up how many innings you are going to have, just to prevent World War III.

Of course how you score is completely up to you. The rules we used were those we used as kids in the 80’s but there are so many more Hilux type utes on the road so maybe these vehicles could score 2 runs.

The kids have loved it, especially my son, who thinks he is the worlds best car cricketer and it is all down to skill, not luck of the draw. It has also been great for their addition skills.