Hobbies - Consecutive Number Plate Spotting

Consecutive Number Plate Spotting

Consecutive Number Plate Spotting (CNPS) is a typical time-killer / leisure game. It’s simple, though highly addictive, so be warned!
I learned about CNPS as being one of the many national sports in Finland, but apparently it has quite some tradition in the UK as well.

Here’s a quick summary of the rules … as I play them ;)

you have to spot each and every number on number plates, in consecutive order
(your start could look like the plates shown at the top)
the number you are looking for has to be the only one on the plate
(not a single extra digit on the plate)
only number plates from one country count
(you can play several games, one for each country, though)
you have to be sure you spotted the number
(not just a glimpse or an idea or something you’re not sure of)
it has to be consecutive
(even seeing the correct numbers within five minutes, but in the wrong order doesn’t count)
you have to see the number plates in person
(no videos, pictures, or people telling you, that you just passed one)

Enjoy :)
And yes, it’s just for fun.

Here’s the stats for some friends trying to spot number plates in Germany.
If you wanna join our little circle, just drop me an email!

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name	current count	years since first find	average number of days to next find	average number of finds per day	expected number of days to next century	finds in past six months	finds in past 30 days	finds in past seven days	most finds on a single day	number hardest to spot	most days with findings in a row	best day of the week	best month of the year	days since last find
Andreas W.	11	9.9	328	0.00	29168	0	0	0	2	12	3	Wed	Aug	3494
Ann-Christine H.	53	10.0	69	0.01	3230	0	0	0	5	54	3	Mon	Aug	3487
Ariane B.	209	10.1	18	0.06	1612	0	0	0	9	210	4	Sat	Aug	1747
Balthasar S.	136	10.1	27	0.04	1734	0	0	0	7	137	5	Sat	Mar	3110
Bernd D.	113	10.4	34	0.03	2926	0	0	0	6	114	7	Wed	Jun	2660
Carsten P.	482	11.7	9	0.11	159	2	0	0	9	463	5	Fri	May	123
Erik	75	10.2	50	0.02	1241	0	0	0	9	76	3	Sun	Apr	1397
Heike	106	10.7	37	0.03	3452	0	0	0	10	107	5	Mon	Apr	1055
Jana	287	10.0	13	0.08	166	0	0	0	7	288	5	Thu	May	2359
Karla	34	7.0	75	0.01	4931	0	0	0	4	35	2	Sun	Aug	831
Lea S.	121	10.1	30	0.03	2403	21	4	2	8	101	5	Sat	Jun	0
Lena W.	49	10.0	74	0.01	3798	0	0	0	4	50	2	Thu	Jun	3405
Michael A.	56	10.1	66	0.02	2902	0	0	0	5	57	4	Sun	May	3499
Michael B.	92	9.6	38	0.03	303	0	0	0	10	93	4	Mon	Nov	3231
Michael S.	48	10.1	77	0.01	3987	16	3	1	4	33	3	Tue	Jun	7
Mirjam	35	9.8	103	0.01	6669	0	0	0	5	36	3	Sat	Jun	3477
Philip S.	14	0.3	7	0.14	614	14	2	0	4	8	1	Mon	Mar	14
Richard	83	10.0	44	0.02	750	0	0	0	8	84	4	Sat	May	3422
Robert F.	6	9.9	602	0.00	56557	0	0	0	4	7	1	Sun	May	3607
Sascha	312	10.7	12	0.08	1098	0	0	0	12	307	5	Sat	Aug	187
Sigrid	349	10.2	11	0.09	542	3	0	0	6	349	4	Sat	May	32
Teresa D.	71	10.4	54	0.02	1553	0	0	0	5	72	5	Mon	Jun	3464
‘active mean’	202.8	8.5	26.7	0.079	1541.0	11.2	1.8	0.6	6.2	101	3.6	Sat	May	35.2

There’s currently 22 (five) people (actively) keeping their stats on this page.

fraction of spottings on a given weekday
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
15.1%	12.8%	10.9%	12.7%	13.7%	17.8%	16.9%

fraction of spottings in a given month
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
4.4%	4.6%	8.4%	12.1%	14.0%	11.3%	8.1%	13.4%	5.8%	8.3%	4.3%	5.2%

average time it took to find numbers in a given range
1 – 25	26 – 50	51 – 75	76 – 100	101 – 125	126 – 150	151 – 175	176 – 200	201 – 225	226 – 250	251 – 275	276 – 300	301 – 325	326 – 350	351 – 375	376 – 400	401 – 425	426 – 450	451 – 475	476 – 500
85.3d	15.6d	10.6d	8.3d	28.1d	5.5d	11.3d	6.4d	10.4d	6.8d	10.5d	16.1d	31.5d	19.5d	6.4d	9.5d	15.0d	19.9d	42.4d	37.7d

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