The game is generally played among the family members especially children on the way when the family is out on an excursion in a car. The game sharpens observation as well as familiarity with the alphabets of the language, the language belonging to any part of the world.

The player who starts the game chooses an object and says - "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ..." (whatever the letter is). The rest of the players guess through observing what the initiator might have chosen in her/his mind. The one who guesses it right first becomes the initiator for the next round.

In a speeding car, if the object that the initiator had chosen outside the car goes out of sight, the initiator is supposed to add - "I can't see it any more now" or "I can see it now" in case it again becomes visible.

At times the object to be guessed may need being described with a phrase rather than with a single word, in which case all the first letters of the words constituting the phrase are to be mentioned. Even colors and sounds can be the clue in order to guess the object framing the sentence something like - "I spy with my little eye something that is yellow" or something like - "I hear with my little ear..."

Generally no scores are kept and a win decides who to initiate next since I Spy game as one of the Guessing Word Games in the categories Car Games and Family Games under Party Games is more fun to enjoy than challenge to win.

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