ばん
one's turn
Everybody in a fixed order and the pointer has come round to you again. Your night for the washing up, and there is a ban ばん on swapping: ばん.
数 かず is a count of how many there are. 番 is which position in an order, and it does number in that sense too, as in 一番.
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