If you play yellow car. What are your rules.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

I feel like people in our family are just making up rules now and it gets harder to actually get a point.
The line between yellow and yellow /orange blurs depending on who sees it. Also now we have points taking away.
I have checked the offical rules ( I know I use that term loosely ) and you are supposed to be able to hit someone. But I feel that could easily spin out of control
What are yours?

There's so many yellow cars on the road now so we play green car or yellow mini. But the car has to be moving for it to qualify

Oh we’re doing it wrong - we play green car with added yellow car points.

It’s got so bad that the DCs take pictures of green cars to one up me while on the way to school. Even though I’ve said it doesn’t count. Never gets violent though…

We used to punch for minis too but there's so many of them around now so we don't, but one day a car transporter full of minis drove past. That was fun 😜😂😂

@RichardMarxisinnocent

I have had many a dead leg thanks to a passing mini.

As children we played Eddie stobart and then we learned of yellow car and although I'm not sure of the rules, there was definite leg punching

We also play the Shappey rules.
You are always playing yellow car.
No hitting.
Just say “yellow car”.

Those limey shades don’t count. Gold sometimes does.
Trucks, JCBs etc all count.

@Nillynally we used to look out for Eddies and Norbert Dentresangle .

Yes, punching someone when you see a mini gets interesting when you pass the mini dealership near us

We play for points not punches, it wouldn't be fair a child and two adults to add violence into the mix even if just light taps.
Any size vehicle but it must be moving. Even if driver is in the cab and stationary, that won't count.
Vehicle must be over 50 percent yellow.
When DH spotted a yellow low flying plane he won so many points it ended the game.

Yellow cars only. Not vans. Not lorry's. Not orange. Not gold.

Must be moving, stationary does not count.

Shappey rules here too. No question.

But AA vehicles always cause a row - adjudication??

Anything goes with us but points not punches! Cars are 3, vans 2 and lorries 1. There’s another rule for yellow buses and taxis etc but I can’t remember how many points they are! 😂 And if in a town where yellow buses and taxis are the norm (my daughter’s university town!), they aren’t counted for obvious reasons! The driver also isn’t allowed to count a yellow vehicle spotted in the rear view or wing mirror.

The trouble is trying to not yell, “Yellow car!” when in the car with anybody other than my (grown up) kids…😂

We learnt it in Australia so it's called spotto. Only cars count, no other vehicles. If it's not yellow or not a car you lose all your points. Shout snotto for green cars (because it's not a yellow car) but that's just for fun - no points allocated.
There's a spotty yellow car near us we've seen a few times so extra points for spotting that.

Cars only.
Has to be 'proper yellow'
If you get it wrong and punch someone, you get a punch back from the person you punched.

Have teens we banned it as it was getting too violent ( and distracting for the driver).

We now play the foreign numberplate game ( have to recognise the letters and identify the country) ( can not be a French car in France etc tho')

Only yellow car. Not van truck etc.

DH displays some worrying ideas of yellow.

Oh we have not done a it must be moving rule.

We keep it simple.

Yellow car = 1 punch per person
If disputed car turns out not to be yellow (consensus in car has to be achieved) then the false shouter gets a punch from everyone else in the car

My DH did (jokingly) try to suggest a green cat version where you spit at the other person but it didn't catch on

Pictures of yellow cars are fair game.

We play for sweets. I'm starting to think I've been conned by my kids!

My DS when much smaller proffered:

"Do you think that people who drive yellow cars have a disproportionate view of how violent the world is? I mean they must see car loads of people assaulting each other all the time"

A good point I think

@iamaLeafontheWind

We’re not playing yellow car.

You are always playing Yellow Car.

Arthur Shappey rules.

@catwomandoo never thought of that. That’s funny !

I thought of this thread earlier when my DC started playing it in the car on the way to visit my mum ..... my DC are late teens/early 20s!!

Clearly you never grow out of playing Yellow Car

@Vapeyvapevape yes! I forgot about Norbertts!!

@catwomandoo

My DS when much smaller proffered:

"Do you think that people who drive yellow cars have a disproportionate view of how violent the world is? I mean they must see car loads of people assaulting each other all the time"

A good point I think

In my family, it has to be a punch on the leg. The harder the better.
Every long car journey, me, my dsis and dbro unable to exit the car, because of dead legs.