Boggle®
The Boggle game. Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and distributed by Hasbro. It involves a board made up of 16 cubic dice, where each die has a letter printed on each of its 6 sides. At the beginning of the game, the 16 dice are shaken and randomly distributed into a 4-by-4 tray, with only the top sides of the dice visible. The players compete to accumulate points by building valid words from the dice, according to these rules:
- A valid word must be composed by following a sequence of adjacent dice—two dice are adjacent if they are horizontal, vertical, or diagonal neighbors.
- A valid word can use each die at most once.
- A valid word must contain at least 3 letters.
- A valid word must be in the dictionary (which typically does not contain proper nouns).
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PINS(valid) |
PINES(valid) |
DATES(invalid—dice not adjacent) | ||
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PINT(invalid—path not sequential) |
TEPEE(invalid—die used more than once) |
SID(invalid—word not in dictionary) |
Scoring.
Words are scored according to their length, using this table:
| word length | points |
| 0–2 | 0 |
| 3–4 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 |
| 7 | 5 |
| 8+ | 11 |
The Qu special case.
In the English language, the letter Q is almost always followed by the letter
U.
Consequently, the side of one die is printed with the two-letter sequence Qu
instead of Q (and this two-letter sequence must be used together when forming words).
When scoring, Qu counts as two letters; for example, the word QuEUE
scores as a 5-letter word even though it is formed by following a sequence of only 4 dice.
