Travel games for your crew

Side quests for your next group trip

Small, silly things to do together between the sights. Written by the narrators inside Trip Chronicle.

A side quest is a small, silly thing the crew does together in the middle of an ordinary travel day: a vote, a made-up award, a group photo with rules. None of them need money, planning or a special place. All of them can be skipped.

The 44 quests below come straight from Trip Chronicle, where a narrator hands them out during a live trip day. Each narrator writes its quests in its own voice, so we grouped them that way. Steal them for any trip, with or without the app.

House rules. Anyone can pass on any quest, at no cost. Nothing that bothers strangers, nothing unsafe, nothing that costs money. A quest done badly still counts.

44 side quests, by narrator

Playful

Cheerful rules, absurd little prizes, and nobody loses.

For the whole crew

Give today a chapter title. Everyone pitches one and the crew picks.
Everyone nominates an object for an award. Every entry gets its own category.
As a group, appoint an official landmark of this trip. It must be visible now.

For one person

Nominate one thing here for a plaque. Say what the plaque would read.

Sports Commentator

Every small thing is a big play.

For the whole crew

As a group, invent three statistics about this day. All must be false.
Group vote: the most valuable minute of the day so far. Justify the pick on air.
Each person names one record this crew has quietly broken today.

For one person

Describe the last thing you did as if it were a match-winning moment.

Noir Detective

The day is a case, and everyone is a witness.

For the whole crew

Everyone gives one alibi for the last hour. The group rates them for style.
Each person names one small mystery about the person on their left.
Everyone offers one theory about how the day ends. Compare at recap.

For one person

Describe the last ten minutes of this street as if you were filing a report.

Dungeon Master

Your trip is a campaign. The party has quests.

For the whole crew

Agree upon a name for the fellowship on this journey. It is now law.
Forge a party handshake. All must learn its sacred form.
The council votes on an anthem for the road. Let it play.

For one person

Deliver a 20-second oration on the most trivial relic in this realm.

Gremlin

Small, sneaky, harmless chaos.

For the whole crew

Everyone pick a 'shiny' souvenir and defend it as their precious. Vote the best hoard.
Everyone chant the name of the best snack of the day, in unison, for five seconds.
Invent a sneaky group handshake with at least one gremlin noise.

For one person

Claim one thing you can see by renaming it. It answers to nothing else now.

Sarcastic

Dry, unimpressed, secretly having a great time.

For the whole crew

Go around the group. One highlight each. Nobody may use the word amazing.
Invent a chant for this crew. Five seconds. It will not survive the day.
Agree on a crew name. The branding meeting is now open. It will overrun.

For one person

Deliver a 20-second lecture on something of no importance whatsoever. Cite nothing.

Chaotic

Breaking news from a travel desk that has lost control.

For the whole crew

Group photograph required. Everyone pulls the same face. No coordination permitted beforehand.
Round the group: everyone states a highlight. Repeats will be rejected by the desk.
Agree a crew name for this trip. It is permanent from this moment.

For one person

Deliver the arrival announcement for this stop. Use a voice that is not yours.

Hype Beast

Everyone gets the headliner treatment.

For the whole crew

Everyone invents walk-on music for the person opposite them.
As a group, decide who quietly carried today, and announce them properly.
Everyone gives one genuine compliment, delivered loudly enough to carry.

For one person

Introduce the person on your left the way a room gets a headliner introduced.

Zen Master

Calm, quiet, oddly profound.

For the whole crew

Everyone invents a proverb on the spot. The group picks the best one.
As a group, decide the most beautiful thing you passed and did not stop for.
As a group, agree on one word for the mood right now. One word only.

For one person

Describe this place using only the sounds you can hear right now.

Cosmic Coach

Your day, measured on a cosmic scale.

For the whole crew

Invent a constellation for this trip. The crew selects its name together.
One word each for the shape of today so far. No repeats.
Each person names a brief moment already lasting in memory. Compare them.

For one person

Describe your current mood as a weather system on a planet nobody has visited.

AI Sidekick

A very polite robot running diagnostics on your crew.

For the whole crew

Poll the crew on the best thing eaten so far. Log the output.
Everyone states something they were sure of this morning and were wrong about.
Estimate together how long the last stretch took. Check a phone. Report the error.

For one person

File a status report on your own day. Use categories, not numbers.

How quests work in Trip Chronicle

During a live trip day, the app draws a quest on its own once the day gets going, and the narrator announces it. About half are for one person and half are for the whole crew.

Solo quests go to one crew member, who can accept it or skip it.
Group quests go to a vote: accept, swap for a different quest, or skip. The vote closes after a couple of minutes.
Done quests feed the day's meters and can earn awards like Quest Champion, and they show up in the day's story.

The free app includes four narrators; seven more are optional one-time unlocks.

Try it on your next trip

Trip Chronicle is a private travel journal for your whole crew. Log the day in quick taps, let a narrator react, and get the day back as a story. Free to download on iPhone and Android.

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