# The consecutive number game. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020 "2003-07-08T16:06:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/221 "2003-07-27T07:44:44Z")
you guys can neither read or count; this is the 218th reply to this thread. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/222 "2003-07-27T07:49:11Z")
1. neither can i :smack: ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/223 "2003-07-27T07:51:06Z")
222 :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/224 "2003-07-27T08:15:07Z")
Yeah, but if you actually put in a number for each replyā€¦ might make things easier. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/225 "2003-07-27T08:16:54Z")
Not that I ever take my own advice, of course. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/226 "2003-07-27T10:10:59Z")
225 is a number that has no fascination to me whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/227 "2003-07-27T17:02:59Z")
Fern, 225 has NO fascination to you? It is 15 \* 15 !!! Still the Next number in this thread should be:           **198** ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/228 "2003-07-27T17:44:06Z")
hijackers you people are, hijackers! all **227** times! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/229 "2003-07-27T17:48:00Z")
          **198**           198 = 6[sup]2[/sup] + 7[sup]2[/sup] + 7[sup]2[/sup] + 8[sup]2[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/230 "2003-07-27T17:51:23Z")
**229** wonder if my post count can catch up with this threadā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/231 "2003-07-27T17:51:26Z")
          **199**           The 46th Prime Number ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/232 "2003-07-27T17:54:09Z")
          **200**           200 = 2[sup]3[/sup] \* 5[sup]2[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/233 "2003-07-27T17:56:48Z")
shijinn Seems you are hijacking this thread. Also, if you look at the very beginning of this thread you will see that more than 1 person made a posting for the same number. So it is useless to base the number you are posting on the ā€œpost countā€. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/234 "2003-07-27T18:09:46Z")
wolf\_meister iā€™m just trying to rescue the thread, from simul-posts/ double posts and from people who canā€™t count. all this is based on the assumption that the OP is wondering about the number of replies this thread will receive. thank you. i need to upgrade the PowerBook G3/ **233** , canā€™t keep upā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/235 "2003-07-27T19:23:31Z")
201 201 years ago congress approved the creation of West Point Military Academy. \*Since this is the consecutive number thread, it makes more since to use consecutive numbers and not try to match responses with the post count. Thanks. moejuck ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/236 "2003-07-27T19:56:56Z")
**moejuck** Iā€™m glad you returned to rescue this thread. As you can see I am really interested in this one.           **202**           202 is the sum of 2 squares           202 = 9[sup]2[/sup] + 11[sup]2[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/237 "2003-07-27T21:40:03Z")
          **203**           203 is the difference of 2 squares:           18[sup]2[/sup] - 11[sup]2[/sup] = 203           324 -121 = 203 ---
**Author:** ![Plankspanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Plankspanker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plankspanker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/238 "2003-07-27T23:23:39Z")
204 can be re-arranged to 420 (hehe. sorry, i know itā€™s weak!!!) ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/239 "2003-07-27T23:38:17Z")
Boy Scout Troop [205](http://www.troop205bsa.org/) is from Kalamazoo, Michigan. I could say Kalamazoo 205 times. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/240 "2003-07-27T23:52:56Z")
heh, mission failure ā˜¹ iā€™ll just drive off quietly in my erm, Peugeot \*\*206 \*\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020.md?page=13)