Oh, I hope not, MtheGM. There's a good case for all sorts of number games just for the fun of it, and many a deep theory is inspired by a simple game, exactly is it is in science or, analoguously, literature. Lear has his place, not just Tolstoy. Not everything needs the PhD, whether maths, english or music.

"There is beauty in the bellow of the blast,
There is grandeur in the growling of the gale ..."