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1. Number Plate Games
When on a long drive it can be very boring. There are many silly little games to play, that people make up. Most notably Number Plate Games. These are where you either look for number plate sequences, starting at 1 going to 999, or vice versa, or counting how many prime numbers can be found. Or on a short commute to work, counting even-odd pairs, or numbers ending in certain digits,
i.e. on the fourth of the month, how many plates can you count ending their number sequence in 4?
and then the fifth, how many ending in 5?
And see if there is a day when the best number comes up, obviously you must roll over to 1, on the eleventh, and 5 on the fifteenth and so on.

2. Eye Spy Games or I spy (if you are a cockney)
    Everyone has played eye spy when they were children, and this is another observation game. And when Children are in the car with you, You can keep their attention ( for at least half an hour ) by counting the red cars, or the blue cars. Or if they are older you can play snooker, getting the colours from cars you are behind and reds from cars as they pass. If you get stuck behind a white car you've soured! (  five points taken away ). But if you are not very careful, you quite easily start weaving in and out of traffic to get a black.
    Rules for traffic snooker addendum 2.3 :- Because there are very few pink and brown cars on the british roads, you can substitute Silver for brown, and Gold for pink, ( a higher ranking is taken for gold to be in keeping with the international olympic committee traditions )

3. Solo Games
   When you are alone in the car, a different approach is required. Without anyone to compete with, and with the car to drive, your attention span is affected in a very different manner.
Cats eye
You must drive along the carriageway without touching any cats eyes. This is great on motorways, and very tricky at first. But get the front wheels over, and the back wheels follow. Don't do too much swerving, at the coppers will catch you and you will get banged up. Remember "Gently Bentley"
Brake Lights
Try to drive for as long as possible without pressing the brake pedal, ( my best is 45 miles -M1 1987 )
Service Station
Remember all the service stations along all the major motorway routes, and show off to like minded regular drivers,  but warning ( this is very sad obsessional behaviour, never bring it up in delicate situations, only in front of people with similar knowledge )

4. Fadic Number Plates
   Every vehicle has a number plate on both ends. The format changes every twenty years or so, but there is essentially up to three numbers on there. If you add up the three digits you will get one or two digit sum, if it's two digits, then add them up and you will get an integer between 1 and 9.
Even if the three digits sum to a two digit number, and you have to add the two digit number again, that's ok.

EXAMPLE

    The conclusion of this arithmetic, is that every car has a number between 1 and 9. The mathematical probability is that all numbers are equally likely to appear. This is a very intriguing phenomena, and also, some would argue a very ancient one.

    What you do with this information is anybody's guess, but remember, i'm driving about in a number 2, and if I see another number 7 i'm going to go mad, as they're usually very rude.  Number ones are always very clean, and number 3's are well driven.
    I haven't picked up on the common traits for the other numbers yet, I've found them more difficult to decipher, but I'll let you know as soon as I do !!

 p.s. you might think that this is superstitious nonsense - and in my defence i'd say you were correct

5. Pub Cricket
     This game requires at least two people, and is great fun. It is best for a medium length journey where you don't spend much time on the motorway.
      Everyone who's playing, takes a turn to spot the next pub. And runs scored are from the amount of legs described on the pub sign, if there is one, or the description of it by the name of the pub. There is a maximum run score of 10.

Examples

     When you get the full gist of the game, you will find that you can ignore pubs with 0 legs, But if your opponents see you ignoring, they can shout the name of the pub and make you have it. The game relies mostly on luck. And there are often large gaps before loads of pubs in quick succession, where you must quickly shout the best ones out. The game is over when the journey ends.
If there is any dispute over a name, then you must sort it out yourselves in an adult manner. Email me here and I will adjudicate the decision. Press the following link to send me a disputed pub sign....

> Pub Query <

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