All the pretty numbers

[crazykate]

I've just had to switch from 4x4 to 5x5 for this month because I noticed that my total points score is at 99999 points. I can't ruin that.

[dannyb]

I've just had to switch from 4x4 to 5x5 for this month because I noticed that my total points score is at 99999 points. I can't ruin that.

A very pretty number indeed! Take a screen shot and print it. Even if you don't play 4X4, the number will disappear at midnight on September 31.

[bwt1213]

A very pretty number indeed! Take a screen shot and print it. Even if you don't play 4X4, the number will disappear at midnight on September 31.

Um. Did you mean September 30?

[BoggleOtaku]

I guess this provides a counterexample the earlier conversation where getting 99999 would be disappointing compared to getting 100000... congrats!

[dannyb]

"Um. Did you mean September 30?"

You will see that it is a thirty if you use an optical transducer. Isn't that correct Lalatan? I bought mine used on eBay!

"I guess this provides a counterexample the earlier conversation where getting 99999 would be disappointing compared to getting 100000... congrats!"

One is QUALITY one is QUANTITY. Sort of like gourmet and gourmand.

[BoggleOtaku]

I'd be willing to stipulate for the sake of this topic that nines are higher quality than zeros in most cultures. (And higher quantity digit for digit as a bonus.) But you do get the extra one thrown in.

[bwt1213]

"Um. Did you mean September 30?"

You will see that it is a thirty if you use an optical transducer. Isn't that correct Lalatan? I bought mine used on eBay!

"I guess this provides a counterexample the earlier conversation where getting 99999 would be disappointing compared to getting 100000... congrats!"

One is QUALITY one is QUANTITY. Sort of like gourmet and gourmand.

I must admit that I am a gourmand. My tastebuds don't discriminate quality very well compared to chefs of any worth. And when I was young, I ate prodigious quantities of food with no harmful effects. Alas, those days are gone, very long gone. I can, however, envy those under perhaps 30 years of age who can still devour a whole large pizza by themselves -- or, as I did, a Chicago Deep Dish medium-sized pizza at Pizzeria Due in downtown Chicago. It weighed six pounds and required a whole lot of beer to wash it down, and the waiter couldn't believe I could do it. I didn't require food the next day, however, rather similar to a snake with an especially large meal. No, I did not have indigestion, didn't have bad dreams, and had no ill effects other than I was very thirsty for a while. There's a lot of salt in a pizza, particularly a six pound one. I still fondly remember that pizza. In fact, Ian Fleming (remember James Bond?) had visited that very restaurant and had that very pizza and had inserted a comment about it into one of his novels as "perhaps the best pizza in the world" -- which the restaurant had reprinted and displayed proudly near the entrance. I can testify that it was a very, very good pizza. A righteous pizza. If you are under 30, perhaps you will have one as good. But probably not.