Parents' Guide to

License Plate Travel Game

By Dana Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 7+

Excellent version of classic road-trip activity.

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire Kids' Games
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What you will—and won't—find in this app.

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age 5+

Based on 1 parent review

Yea4me
Yea4me Parent of 6-year-old
February 22, 2013
age 5+

Has bugs, but still not too bad

Since this was the only license plate game I could find for my Kindle I did purchase it despite the mostly negative reviews on Amazon. It's true that as soon as you close the app (or turn off the kindle) you lose all saved plates. We got around that by playing a new game each day, but I also found that licenses would disappear. A choice that we had used the day before for a state would be gone the next day. Beside these couple "bugs" it was an easy way to track plates. One day going through Kansas and Nebraska, we saw 31 states!
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What’s It About?

At the start of the game -- which would likely be at the start of a road trip -- players enter a trip name, start date, and their own names (or team names). When a player spots a particular license plate, they choose the matching state plate from images on the app, and enter that they saw it to get points (two for a plate from a state not yet seen, and one for a plate from a state that someone has already seen at least one other plate from). The results are saved so games can continue over many trips.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say: (1 ):
Kids say: Not yet rated

The multiplayer LICENSE PLATE TRAVEL GAME drives home the idea that road trips and technology can provide fun opportunities for families to interact. With images of many different license plates for each state, as well as score-keeping and the ability to save games from previous trips, this a top choice for road trip games.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Share a fun fact that you know with your kid about each state when they find one of its license plates.

  • Encourage kids to design their own license plate for your state. Ask, "What can you put on it to represent something unique about where we live?"

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