According to the meaning of the question, each child lost two pieces of candy, because the number is an integer. The number ratio of any two adjacent people before the last one cannot be 13: 1, only the last two people, the last one is 13: 1, and the last one cannot be less than two, only 0 or 65438+. It can't be 13: 1, so the last one originally had a candy, the previous one had three, and the last one gave 12 (including two of its own), one of its own, and the last one had 13. The first person gives two, the second person gives four ... the sixth person gives 12, so there are seven people in * * * *.

Why ask at most a few?