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	10.4	344	0.00	30648	0	0	0	2	12	3	Wed	Aug	3677
Ann-Christine H.	53	10.5	72	0.01	3392	0	0	0	5	54	3	Mon	Aug	3670
Ariane B.	209	10.6	19	0.05	1692	0	0	0	9	210	4	Sat	Aug	1930
Balthasar S.	136	10.6	28	0.04	1820	0	0	0	7	137	5	Sat	Mar	3293
Bernd D.	113	10.9	35	0.03	3067	0	0	0	6	114	7	Wed	Jun	2843
Carsten P.	488	12.2	9	0.11	109	6	3	1	9	463	5	Fri	May	4
Erik	75	10.7	52	0.02	1302	0	0	0	9	76	3	Sun	Apr	1580
Heike	106	11.2	38	0.03	3615	0	0	0	10	107	5	Mon	Apr	1238
Jana	287	10.5	13	0.07	174	0	0	0	7	288	5	Thu	May	2542
Jasper S.	18	0.3	7	0.14	574	18	0	0	7	19	1	Thu	Aug	53
Karla	34	7.5	80	0.01	5286	0	0	0	4	35	2	Sun	Aug	1014
Lea S.	160	10.6	24	0.04	966	39	2	1	8	101	5	Mon	Aug / Jun	5
Lena W.	49	10.5	78	0.01	3988	0	0	0	4	50	2	Thu	Jun	3588
Michael A.	56	10.6	69	0.01	3045	0	0	0	5	57	4	Sun	May	3682
Michael B.	92	10.1	40	0.03	319	0	0	0	10	93	4	Mon	Nov	3414
Michael S.	72	10.6	54	0.02	1502	24	5	2	4	33	3	Tue	Jun	3
Mirjam	35	10.3	108	0.01	7009	0	0	0	5	36	3	Sat	Jun	3660
Philip S.	39	0.8	7	0.14	443	25	3	2	4	16	4	Tue / Mon	Aug	5
Richard	83	10.5	46	0.02	787	0	0	0	8	84	4	Sat	May	3605
Robert F.	6	10.4	632	0.00	59424	0	0	0	4	7	1	Sun	May	3790
Sascha	312	11.2	13	0.08	1150	0	0	0	12	307	5	Sat	Aug	370
Sigrid	350	10.7	11	0.09	556	1	0	0	6	350	4	Sat	May	71
Teresa D.	71	10.9	56	0.02	1627	0	0	0	5	72	5	Mon	Jun	3647
‘active mean’	187.8	7.5	18.7	0.090	691.7	18.8	2.2	1.0	6.3	101	3.7	Sat	Aug	23.5

There’s currently 23 (six) people (actively) keeping their stats on this page.

fraction of spottings on a given weekday
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
15.4%	13.5%	10.7%	12.7%	13.4%	17.5%	16.8%

fraction of spottings in a given month
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
4.2%	4.5%	8.0%	11.7%	14.0%	11.2%	9.0%	14.1%	6.1%	8.0%	4.2%	5.0%

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
92.4d	15.3d	10.3d	8.3d	27.7d	5.1d	10.9d	6.4d	10.4d	6.8d	10.5d	16.1d	31.5d	22.0d	6.4d	9.5d	15.0d	19.9d	42.4d	43.5d

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