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Title: "Once, twice, thrice,...", what comes next?
Question: How would you complete the following sequence, until point 10?   Once  Twice  Thrice  (...)   Any help would be appreciated.

Answers:
sents: text: As others have stated in the comments, you would continue like this: Once Twice / a couple of times Thrice / Three times Four times
text: Five times
text: Six times Seven times Eight times Nine times Ten times Note: "a couple" doesn't always mean exactly two, although it often does.
text: As mentioned by Mick in the comments, thrice is quite old fashioned and while most people in the UK would understand, it's not commonly used.
text: You might also reference the fact that 12 is also known as a dozen (and therefore 6 is half a dozen): 6 times =
text: Half a dozen times (or "a half dozen times" in the USsometimes) 12 times = A dozen times There are also some other ways to reference numbers of "things" which don't really apply or work in the "times" example (some of which are a little archaic and more likely to be seen in literature or poetry than in everyday conversational speech/writing): 2 ants ->
text: a pair/duo of ants 3 mice -> a trio/trinity of mice 4 cats ->
text: a quartet of cats 5 dogs ->
text: a quintet of dogs
text: 20 birds ->
text: a score of birds 144 eggs ->
text: a gross of eggs (more often called 12 dozen eggs) In the UK, we also have some slang for certain amounts of money: £5 =
text: a fiver £10
text: = a tenner
text: £20 =
text: a score (like above) £25 =
text: a pony £500 =
text: a monkey
text: £1000 =
text: a grand (also used in the US)
text: There are a load more which originated in cockney rhyming slang, but those above are the most common.
text: Anyway, I've gone quite a bit off-topic there, but hopefully answered your question and gave you a little additional insight as well.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/46513/3N1GM4
score: 62
sents: text: once twice thrice
text: and then there were none
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/26439/Peter
score: 37
sents: text: Anyone who plays DROD knows it's: Thrice Quarce Quince Sence Septence Octence Novence Tonce Edit: Just to clarify, these are - indeed - protologisms.
text: In DROD, they're used to indicate room coordinates (for comedic effect, instead of common notation), e.g. "Twice North, Septence West".
text: Sorry for the confusion - I should've mentioned it's not standard language.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/46957/Writhe
score: 13
sents: text: Welcome, Four times, five times, etc..
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/46702/Saravanan
score: 3
sents: text: "Nothing!
text: These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed."
text: [1]
text: But you can use tuples, Names for tuples of specific lengths1 single2 double3 triple/treble4 quadruple5 quintuple pentadruple6 sextuple hexatruple7 septuple8
text: octuple9
text: nonuple10 decuple11 undecuple hendecuple12
text: duodecuple13 tredecuple100
text: centuple [1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-comes-after-once-twice-thrice
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/59763/Durgesh
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
These three are the only words of their type and the sequence continues as four times, five times, etc. DROD players might use Thrice, Quarce,  Quince,  Sence,  Septence,  Octence,  Novence, and  Tonce. Names for tuples of specific lengths are 1 single, 2 double, 3 triple/treble, 4 quadruple, 5 quintuple/pentadruple, 6 sextuple/ hexatruple, 7 septuple.
Once, "twice" and "thrice" are the only such words that are in use. After "thrice" comes "four times", "five times", etc. Interestingly, in the game DROD, the protologisms "quarce", "quince", "sence", "septence", etc. are used. An alternative would be the use of tuples (single, double, triple/treble, quadruple, quintuple, etc.).