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You'll recall that the Batpup has been recognising car logos, which is pretty impressive for a three-and-a-half-year-old. I thought of a game we can play on longish car trips to replace the Rainbow Game¹: Car Bingo. You print out one bingo card for each player, then someone calls out car models as they pass and the game works like ordinary bingo, only with automotive graphic design instead of legs-eleven and two-fat-ladies.

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¹ They've largely grown out of the Rainbow Game, but it goes like this: first, find a red car. Then an orange one. And so on down the expanded version of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, black, silver, white and brown. We usually only start when we see an orange car going past, because they're so rare; purple is tricky, because so many dark blue cars pretend to be purple until you see them up close, and brown is very rare indeed, which is why tan and beige are considered acceptable substitutes. It's nicely suspenseful without being competitive, which works well with our munchkins. I find myself playing it when I'm out walking...