The Dilemma

[Naboka]

For over a month I've realized I was going to hit 12345 best word records. What an incredibly fun number. It's the first sequence we memorize in learning numbers.

Now that I've reached it, I don't want to change it. I'm just gonna let it sit.

I've been playing a lot of games to find best words and just dumping them when I did. When I hit 12344, I toyed with the idea of finding a really spectacular word as the final one.

But, that got tedious. And just because a word is long doesn't make it spectacular--including the -izations. Lot of short words can fill us with amazement and insights.

Consequently, my last board was interesting but nothing stellar.

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I entertained the notion of pursuing the plus 30 points average, but...

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(An acquaintance actually took that climb. Said it was the most miserable experience in his life. His dreams of exceptionalism collapsed into a tourist trap from Hell.)

The last item on my Wordtwist bucket list is to record a 37 point word. That will most likely happen piggybacking off another's find so it won't add a best words record.After that...

to play or not to play

that is the question.

What do you think?

[crazykate]

Naboka, I admire your skill and perseverance. I like big words and fun stats as well. However, I would urge you to ask yourself: why are you playing the game at this point? Are you still having fun? If so, why would you stop? If you do stop playing in order to preserve a perfect stat page, your name will show up less and less in the stars of boards others will come across, and eventually fewer people will come across your perfect stat page.
If you are the person who is most likely to derive pleasure from your stats, the easiest solution would be to take a screenshot, print it out, frame it, and keep playing as long as you're still having fun.
Additionally, I believe lalatan once tracked his own stats manually and suspected that the game stats weren't 100% accurate and sometimes changed when boards got recycled. I don't know if that was a bug that got fixed, but it would be disappointing to stop because of a number and then that number changed.

Another solution to your dilemma would be to create a new account and pursue whichever goal you can think of under a new name.

Lastly, 12345 is an extremely impressive number, not just due to the pleasing sequence. The amount of time and dedication that got you to this number is incredible. I salute you!

[Naboka]

Naboka, I admire your skill and perseverance. I like big words and fun stats as well. However, I would urge you to ask yourself: why are you playing the game at this point? Are you still having fun? If so, why would you stop? If you do stop playing in order to preserve a perfect stat page, your name will show up less and less in the stars of boards others will come across, and eventually fewer people will come across your perfect stat page.
If you are the person who is most likely to derive pleasure from your stats, the easiest solution would be to take a screenshot, print it out, frame it, and keep playing as long as you're still having fun.
Additionally, I believe lalatan once tracked his own stats manually and suspected that the game stats weren't 100% accurate and sometimes changed when boards got recycled. I don't know if that was a bug that got fixed, but it would be disappointing to stop because of a number and then that number changed.

Another solution to your dilemma would be to create a new account and pursue whichever goal you can think of under a new name.

Lastly, 12345 is an extremely impressive number, not just due to the pleasing sequence. The amount of time and dedication that got you to this number is incredible. I salute you!

Appreciate the feedback. For "crazy" your reasoning is certainly sound.

Since I enjoy math, stats always hold an interest. Mounting a picture of an accomplishment on Wordtwist has enough kitsch to make me entertain the idea. But, the walls are already laden with other art and photos. The wife would probably not see the humor. She already thinks I spend far too much time on Wordtwist rather than completing her ever-expanding honey-do encyclopedia.

Not sure if we can play under two names on a paid account, and I'm certainly too cheap to pay twice. Though, I have entertained the idea of pulling out my brother in law's program which would enable me to easily average over 1500 words per game under a different name. I could suddenly become amazing and prove to the world I'm not the failure everyone believes me to be. Daddy, please love me.

So much fakery around the internet. Since I follow some golfers (my garden assistant is the number one golfer on her HS team) Instragram's algorithm fed me an account of an absolutely stunning young female golfer. Looked her up as something seemed off. There's actually a golfer with her name, plays for her college, pretty attractive, but not nearly like the images on Instagram. And she has brown eyes, not the striking blue eyes of the Instagram account. I get so tired of the scamming.

As for the dilemma, the universe (a euphemism for my ineptitude) stepped in and solved the issue. I accidentally hit the submit button on a game I had meant to dump. The high score had been a 13/24, but I like to see if I can top those. Ended up with a 16/30, 15/28, 13/24 and 12/22. Guess I just got too excited and distracted, thus the wrong button.

sigh.

And here I thought the Sisyphean boulder of Wordtwist had finally settled.

Mann tracht, un Gott lacht.

[BoggleOtaku]

Instead, a fourth Sisyphean boulder has been added...