Celebrity Number Plates Game

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A game for all of the family

In the UK our number plates arrangement on cars changed in the new millennium. The first new number plate had the year code 51 issued in August of 2001. Each year we issue two year codes. In March we issue the actual year as a two digit number, so 02 was for 2002. Later in the year we issue a number exactly 50 higher. So in August 2002 we issued 52. Every subsequent year will use the same formula.

Traditionally we have had fun with our number plates making words where possible from the misreading numbers as letters. DAV 1 D was read as DAVID and was sold for a lot of money. MAN 14 C is harder to read but pushing all of the letters together gives MAN14C which some people with their eyes nearly shut can read as MANIAC. There's a lot of imagination used in this game!

As the letters I, Q and Z are not used the challenge is to make useful and humorous number plates for the modern celebrity.

The format is 'AA nn XXX' where:

  • AA is a two letter combination without the forbidden letters given above.
  • nn represents the year numbers and are 51, 02, 52, 03, 53, 04, 54, 05, and soon to be 55.
  • XXX represents a three letter combination (without the forbidden letters given above).

Examples

Using 51


Would a rap band ever want the stretched limo with the registration
MU51CAL

So, over to you!

Remember:

  • There was no 01 plate so that is not an option you can use.
  • You can currently only use 02, 03, 04, 05, 51, 52, 53, 54, or 55. Sadly there was no 01 plate.
  • If you want to imagine a car of the future you can go up to 99 (which would be a car registered in or after August in 2049!).
  • No I, Q or Z in the letters.

Some more examples

Maybe the Hollies would have liked a car with one of their hits on the number plate
BU55TOP

Or wait until 2011 and have
HO11EES

In the year 2015 there will be lots of fund with the '15' plate

Maybe Mr Archer would want
PR15ONS

In the same year would one of the political spin doctors like
TW15TER

Who knows what would happen in 2049

Maybe Bill Gates will use
BE99ARS


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