The Numbers Game

As some math obsessed freak, I strongly associate numbers with things. For instance if the idiotic gas pump doesn't print a receipt for my Tyme card transaction, I'll try to remember the number by either coming up with a formula for it, ie if it's $12.38, then I say that it's 2 cubed. Or, I'll come up with a date, unfortunately my sense of history is horrible, and everything ends up costing the same as the year the Magna Carta was signed, even though I have no idea when that was signed. I'll have to rewatch Billy Madison.

Anyway, so I came up with this game because, I am a nerd, but I figure, know you're audience. The game works like this:

Starting at one, name something associated with it. The next person to post comes up with something associated with two. The number has to be unique and verifiable for that number. For instance, you can't say "Five green M & Ms in a bag." Well that might be true once, but not constantly. (Actually there's a mathematical formula describing the percentages for each color to appear in an M&M bag). As for verifiable, that means you can't say there were four Steves in your graduating class. You could show us your yearbook, but the information should be generally known, or possibly known. So you could use college/pro jersey numbers, songs, movies, books, etc, just not personal information.

Examples of acceptable answers would be:

4: Brett Favre's number.
8: legs on a spider
21: Blackjack

If a number gets too difficult, after a while we can simply post on it. Please don't post twice in a row unless the number stalls for a while. With that being said, I'll start it off (and yes, I am a math nerd, I cannot help it, it's a sickness)

1 - is the loneliest number.

Dwayne

 

2 - Turtle Doves

 

3 - episodes in a trilogy

 

4 - The number of letters in the word four.

 

5 -- Golden Rings

 

The "12 days of xmas" are a bit to obvious methinks...

6 - Star Wars Movies

 

7 = 7-Eleven

 

8 - Rows or columns on a chess board.

Dwayne

 

9= Cat of 9 tails


m

 

10 = years in a decade

 

11 - first whole number that's a palindrome

 

12 Signs of the Zodiac

 

13 - Everyone's favorite unlucky number, ie Friday the 13th, re-numbering floors in a building so that there is no 13.

 

14 - there are 14 days in a fortnight

 

15 minutes of fame

 

16 - the age you're eligible for a driver's license.

 

17 - She's only 17 (Winger)

 

18 Age you're legally adult.


Dwayne

 

19- Steve Yzerman's Jersey Number

(Back to back just to get to his one.)

M

 

20 Questions. Or 20/20, as in the vision measurement or the news show.





In other numbers related news this is post 1000 for me.

 

21 - Drinking Age, and the horrible shot combinations along consumed on one's 21st birthday....unless you happen to know anyone who likes to down "cement mixers" with their pub food, then I stand corrected.

 

22: Catch-22, the old "It takes money to make money" rule of life.

Dwayne

 

23: Love him or hate him, Michael Jordan owns this numerical spot.

 

24 hours in a day.

 

25: Speed limit in almost all residential neighborhoods.


It's a stretch..but it works