while on our missions experience i was reminded of a game we developed last year. it’s a great way to do the radio for the proverbial road trip. "the scan game" here are the details

• the premise: everyone gets their shot to listen to the radio they want too via scan. fun begins messing with folks and their music choices.
• the rules are simple. press scan on the radio. as it picks up the various signals the car trip members can choose their song by indicating "this is mine" or "i want this one!" you can only get one pick per round. once a song ends, no matter how long or short, it goes back to scan. at the end of the round winners and losers are decided, jokingly of course, with song choice & length as judging points. it is generally obviously who got the shaft on their song choice.
• odd rulings: you can choose a sports event, but the scan starts back up when there is a commercial. same goes for a talk radio. npr can be a little iffy in this rule.
• people can trade or ask others to pick a song for them if they have used up theirs already. but it is generally discouraged.

this can go on for hours. it is fun to pick up the different sounds coming through the radio in various parts of the states. if you are in a very rural part of the land it could be tough playing. especially if you only have two channels that come through. then you can do a manual shuffle on an ipod or other mp3 player.

and that is the scan game.