Car Game - Counting Animals

Counting Animals

An alternative to car cricket for the open countryside is for players to count animals on their side of the car. This game recurs under many titles, such as Counting Cows, and diverse sets of rules.

Two players are given a side of the road, left or right. The aim is for a player to score 100 points for animals on their side, with these rules:

• three for a pig
• minus ten for a horse
• cat looking out of the window is 100
• one point for any other animal

The usual rules include these points:

• you only count animals beyond the carriageway on your side;
• estimate for flocks of sheep and so on;
• humans, birds and other non-mammals don't count;
• scores never drop below zero under the horse rule.