Just a little more proof that I sport the 'Geek' brand blazoned boldly on my forehead.
I like to play games with license plates when I'm bored on the road. The fact that I'm further distracting myself while already in a distracted state behind the wheel does not bode well, I know. Don't worry, I haven't had an at fault claim against me since 1996. And those get stricken from your record after six years, so I'm clean baby!
Alberta license plates, like most around the rest of the country, conform to a certain standard. At least insofar as the alpha-numerics that are assigned to each. Most are of the format: ABC - 123. Three letters followed by three numbers. Again, most often the three letters consist of consonants so as to avoid the inadvertent spelling of a word by mistake. Though I've noticed a trend away from this of late.
The game is played thus: take the three consonants that adorn a license plate and make a word. Multiple words are even better. The rules are, 1. - you can add as many vowels to the existing letters as you want, in whatever order. 2. - you cannot change the order of the existing consonants in any way. 3. - You cannot add any consonants anywhere. ('Y' as in sky is permissible, 'Y' as in yes is not.)
To date, I've had my most resounding success with the license plate: PRT - ###. I've been able to come up with:
PRAT
PORT
PART
APART
PRATE
PIRATE
PYRITE
So, as is quite evident, the fun never really ends.
Good luck.
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