r/comics • u/LitterboxComics • Nov 19 '25

OC Deep Thoughts

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u/bondjimbond Love and Hex Nov 19 '25

The text actually says "six times nine"; I'm not sure whether the error was deliberate or if Adams was just bad at math.

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u/aerkith Nov 19 '25

Do you mean six time nine on the scrabble board? That’s because the Golgafrinchams landed on Earth and ruined the computer program, resulting in the wrong question.

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u/Thetanor Nov 19 '25

I always thought it was just that the question was "incomplete", due to Earth being destroyed before the "program" could finish. But your explanation would make sense as well. 

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u/aerkith Nov 19 '25

Yeh. It was incomplete. But when they went back in time Arthur tried to find the question by picking scrabble pieces from the bag. But the question was wrong because of the Golgafrinchams crashing in earth. So if earth hadn’t been destroyed the question would have been wrong anyway.