count a certain number of runs (e.g. six or ten). Numberplate cricket One variation on this game scores 'runs' based on car number plates. When the driver gets behind another car, the number plate is examined, and the number plate either scores runs or wickets. The numbers in the plate are added together and multiplied by the number of vowels in the plate. If the answer is 0, then a wicket falls. For example: AB02XYZ – numbers added together = 2, × 1 vowel = 2 runs A999EOU = 9+9+9 (27) × 4 = 108 FG04SDF = 4 × 0 = 0 (wicket) Play continues until the batter loses 10 wickets, then the next player bats. High-scoring pubs Of commonly occurring pub signs, amongst the best are "The Seven Swans" (14 points) and "Fox and Hounds" (12 points). Some unusual pub names can score far more – "The Twenty Church Wardens", in Cockley Cley, Norfolk, scores 40 points and "The Million Hare", in Woolwich, scored 4 million points in the basic version of the game until it was renamed. "The Cricketers" scores four points (the number of cricketers is unspecified, so assume two) but "The Cricket Team", if it existed, would score 22 (there are eleven cricketers on a cricket team). "The Eleven Cricketers" at Storrington in Sussex, now closed, did score 22 runs since the number of cricketers was specified. The "Duke of York's Men" can be argued to fetch 20,000 points, by reference to the nursery rhyme, but can also be argued to score only four points as the name does not specify how many men. Similarly, "The Beehive" could be argued to equal 60000 points, as there would be at least 10,000 bees in a beehive; conversely it could be argued to gain twelve points as the number of bees are not specified. It could also be argued that the beehive is the hive itself and therefore scores no points. Finally, it could also simply be used as a convenient way to declare a winner, especially if one was, anyway, having a pub lunch. Example game Alice and Bob play the game using the basic version and handling plurals using method (1). Alice is in. The Fox – 4 points (4) Henry IV – 2 points (6) The Oak Tree – 0 points (6) Coach and Horses – 8 points, because we assume two horses and no