A very simple
back-seat game, for use among
siblings or
good friends. It goes a
little something like this :
You can play with anyone that's within arm's length. Stare intently out the window looking for Volkswagen Beetles. Once you see one, be the first to call out 'Slug Bug!'. If you were the first to call it, you get to thump everyone else involved in the arm. As hard as you can. Continue on until people are so hurt that they cry Uncle. The winner is the last man standing.
Variant rules :
- You gotta call out the color of the Beetle to make it stick (this is for those sticky cases where you see two Beetles).
- Should the previous rule be in effect, you gotta call out every color of paint on the Beetle - calling out 'Slug Bug, rainbow!' will not work.
- Should you call 'Slug Bug' with there being no reliable evidence that a Beetle did, in fact, enter your cone of vision, everyone playing gets to hit you three times.
- If you are playing with the 'color rules', and you screw up on the color, everyone else gets to hit you three times.
- Assuming that there is A Higher Power in the front seat (Mom, Dad, etc.), the one who incurs the wrath of said Higher Power is declared to have 'ruined the game', and he or she will be given appropriate punishments once away from the car (purple nurples, wedgies, etc.)
- For purists only : New Beetles are not fair game.
There's really no strategy you can use in this game, except to maybe do lots of push-ups to increase the force of your punch, and to make sure to hit your opponents in the same spot every time - create a weakness, and exploit it.
My favorite way to play is to get a window seat on an airplane, and play with your neighbor in the aisle seat - unless if someone smuggles a Volkswagen under their skirt ('Um... I'm pregnant. Yeah, that's the ticket...') you will have very smooth sailing.