We keep a small basket in our car for road trips. It's filled with tic tac toe sheets, mad libs, notebooks, pens and markers (crayons are a no-no, they melt!) and games. One of my kid's favorite things to play in the car is Scrabble Slam. It's a fun card game that requires a small playing surface, and is easily played, and stored, while on long road trips.
Similar to Scrabble only in that the cards look like little scrabble tiles, there are several ways you can play the game.
The standard game starts by dealing out all the cards. Each player takes turns as they lay down one card at a time, making new words.
The speedier, and preferred game by my kids is to start with a (friendly) four letter word, and using only one card at a time, make as many new words as possible. It's fun and fast competition, each new word possibly blocking the other player from making a word.
I really like that there are many different ways the game can be played! We've also played longer words, and using more letters at one time to change your word. This makes for a really challenging game, and when we first got our cards two years ago, I would often let my kids win. I now find myself really challenged when playing with them, and bittersweetly look to the day that they can easily beat me! 
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