Many times my kids have started sticker books. They wanted to collect Pokémon cards, football stickers, etc. We kept on buying packs of stickers (or cards) hoping to complete the collection until the fad passed. I don’t think we have ever completed a collection. Often, I have wondered what it would cost to do so.
Recently, I came across the coupon collectors problem. With the math to the problem we can calculate the average number of cards you need to buy in order to complete a collection.
If you want to estimate how much it will cost to complete your sticker collection, you can fill the fields below.
Number of stickers to a complete collectionPrice of one sticker
