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we got a tiny car (kittens may have complained about it) with nothing but a tape player and radio. We can transmit an mp3 player to it but whatever.

Just give us some crazy ideas for games, audio, whatever.

My input:car games.
Ghost:
each player says a letter in order, starting with a, next word starts with b, etc. the goal is to continually spell a word, without ending it. If someone finishes a word, (more than 3 letters) they lose a life. if someone doubts that the last person's letter makes a real word, they make a challenge. If the last player can think up of a word that exists that could be made, the challenger loses a life. if they cant, they lose a life. Then the next round starts, with the next letter in the alphabet.

example. bob, jen and tod are playing. bob starts with A. jen says P. tod says P. bob says L. tod doesn't think there's a word that can be made out of this, so he challenges bob. Bob says "apple", what he was trying to spell. tod loses a life. If tod had said E, he also would have lost. poor tod. if tod said I, (applicant) he would have survived, even if jen had challenged him.

have your own small game of minute to win it

Ghost:
each player says a letter in order, starting with a, next word starts with b, etc. the goal is to continually spell a word, without ending it. If someone finishes a word, (more than 3 letters) they lose a life. if someone doubts that the last person's letter makes a real word, they make a challenge. If the last player can think up of a word that exists that could be made, the challenger loses a life. if they cant, they lose a life. Then the next round starts, with the next letter in the alphabet.

example. bob, jen and tod are playing. bob starts with A. jen says P. tod says P. bob says L. tod doesn't think there's a word that can be made out of this, so he challenges bob. Bob says "apple", what he was trying to spell. tod loses a life. If tod had said E, he also would have lost. poor tod. if tod said I, (applicant) he would have survived, even if jen had challenged him.

I've played that game a lot on trips, and it's fun.  However, the best idea I heard of for a long trip to a Redemption tournament was a traveling tournament itself.  I think this was done once, and was actually an official local level tournament that happened in the van on the way to (or from) another tournament.

Of course you might not be able to have enough room for the cards in a small car, but that brings up another memory from WAYYYYYY back.  Imaginary Redemption.  Basically you have 2 people play with imaginary decks.  You just say what cards you are playing and keep track of it all in your head.  A neutral 3rd person writes notes on paper to make sure that everything is legal (ie.  you didn't claim to play SoG/NJ when you only had 1 card left in your "hand", or you didn't claim to draw the same hero twice in a game (unless there was a Chariot of Fire involved). etc.)  I've never tried this myself, but legend goes that there was someone who did this at Nats many years ago, and challenged any takers, but was never beaten.

I vote imaginary redemption. This is a small car.

What about miniature redemption, for card trips? only one hero, evil, soul at a time, so there's only 3 cards out. either that or always play characters from hand. that way there's a minimum of cards out and still a little redemption gameplay, probably not even at all but maybe entertaining.

As well as that, might as well throw out some other dumb redemption game ideas i think of:

Uno? play a card with the same brigade, strength or toughness, son of God is draw four wild, etc.

war: flip cards from deck one at a time, numbers battle normally, special abilities happen, characters beat artifacts/fortresses, but they beat enhancements, dominants beat everything else.

Speed redemption. You get 15 seconds per turn.
Speed imaginary Redemption.

I'd draw Urim and Thummin and a HP in my opening draw every game of imaginary Redemption.

I've played a game similar to that where you have to sing a part of a song with the word in it. You had to know at least 5 or 7 words of the song around the part were it says the word. Keep going back and forth until nobody can think of another song containing the word.