My family and I love taking road trips around Southern and South-Western Ontario during long weekends and holidays. However, as expected, we found ourselves stuck in Toronto-Style traffic more often than not. To pass the time, we made a game that we could play using the license plates around us.
The game goes as following: most license plates in Ontario follow the format: ABCD 123 (that is, four letters, followed by three numbers). The first letter is usually the letters A, B or C, so this letter is usually omitted from the game. The goal was to create a word that includes these three letters. The letters must appear in that word in the same order they are present in the license plate, though other letters can be placed in between, before, or after the combination. For example, CLTN 456 could make the word “blatant”.
This Python App was a project I made that would show the potential answers that could be made for a given set of letters. Currently, Ontario license plates are supported, though it is reasonably effortless to add other formats. Checkout the GitHub for more!
https://github.com/varunan-vara/license-plate-game
An example of an Ontario License Plate
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