Got, got, got, Neeeed! Panini Stickers

Russia 2018: 682 stickers and 80p per pack of 5. 60% increase. Gouging gits.

Minimum cost = 682*0.16 = £109.12

Monte Carlo simulation time...

~/personal/panini$ ./panini.pl 1 | grep people
people=1 stickers_per_album=682 cutoff=682 avg_bought=4839 avg_bought_per_person=4839 avg_first_dup=33
~/personal/panini$ ./panini.pl 20 | grep people
people=20 stickers_per_album=682 cutoff=682 avg_bought=25223 avg_bought_per_person=1261 avg_first_dup=32

Going alone: ~4850 stickers at 16p each = £776.00
Completing 20 albums (i.e. amongst a group of 20 people): ~1260 per person at 16p each = £201.60

A few of my daughter's friends are collecting too, so we'll have a small pool to swap with (it won't take long until they are banned at school, happens every time with everything collectable/swappable) and then I'll use laststicker.com again which worked really well last time (might start a bit earlier this time). I'll see if I can do it by spending less than £150 including postage.

(~16 and a bit weeks until the WC final, so that's ~£10 a week, just need to cut out two beers a week to cover the cost.)

[EDIT] Packs/boxes of stickers available for a lot less than 80p/pack on eBay. I'll also look to get a personalised box of 100 packs from mypanini.co.uk with my daughters picture on (they print 10 unique stickers with your supplied photo/text and then stick them in random packs in the box).