The Five Rs: A road trip game
Years ago, on a long drive to Ocean City, New Jersey, I invented a small, fun game, whose purpose is mainly to enjoy the absurdity of AM radio. People can play alone or with other occupants. I call it The Five Rs.
A quick aside about Ocean City. My mother started taking me and my older sister years ago, when we were babies, and we still visit today. Over the years, we've become experts in mini golf and have come to love the beach, the food, the ice cream, the rides, and so much more. It's one of my favorite places.
The rules of the game are simple: switch to AM radio and tune to different stations one by one. For each station, try to be the first to guess whether the station is:
- Religion (including Christian rock)
- Republican (right-wing talk radio)
- Recreation (sports)
- Reporting (news)
- Ruh-roh (everything else, including things that are even stranger, like Coast to Coast AM, the conspiracy radio show that partially motivated the Heaven's Gate cult suicides)
The first person to guess correctly wins*!
* or loses, depending on how you look at it.