Another variety of R&Ns has a different set of magical (yet mathematical) properties. Remove exactly 4 candies and 1 additional candy appears in the bag. According to the package, a bag contains 50 candies. What is the maximum number of canies that this variety of R&Ns will yield?

Answer 1

after each step, the bag has 3 fewer candies than before.

So, starting with 50 candies, after 16 steps, there are just 2 candies left in the bag.

During those 16 steps, 64 candies have been removed. If you are allowed to remove the last two, then that makes 66.

It's a bit disappointing to note that you've been posting this problem for the last three days, and never once offered any of your own ideas. Heck, in that time, you could have done the experiment yourself with real candies!