Boggle

Boggle is a thinking game with letters and words by Alan Turoff. It was published in 1972 in the United States at Parker Brothers, but with little success. After an advertising rich republishing 1976 1977 sold millions of copies. 1978 was also published in Germany by Parker, a new edition appeared in 2004.

The approximately 5 minute long game can be played with any number of players from about 8 years. 1997 Hasbro released the game under the same name also for the PC. 2010 appeared the electronic revised version of the game as Boggle Flash, followed by the Langenscheidt edition that explicitly matches the specified words with official dictionaries and Boggle alphabet soup as a version of the game for the little ones.

Accessories

Content of the game include

• An egg timer ( hourglass) the time limit,
• The shape with 4 by 4 fields, in which
• The 16 dice fall showing different letters, and
• The lid, so that when boggeln ( hence the name), so when vigorous shaking, no dice falls to the ground.
• In addition, the rules of the game.

In addition, pens and paper are needed.

Regulate

Once a player has geboggelt and the hourglass was turned over, the grid is revealed. Now the players must form words with at least 3 letters, so that successive word in the following letters next to each other ( even diagonally ) and there are no cube is used twice. Jumps in the word are thus not allowed. In addition, proper names and foreign words, and abbreviations are prohibited. In contrast, verbs inflected or declined and nouns and plural forms can be used. The more letters has a word, the more points are awarded for it.

Depending on the length of a word, there are found the following scores:

If the playing time has elapsed, all words found are picked and as in some versions of the famous guessing game city, country, river all duplicate items must be deleted.

End of the game

The game ends either when a certain score is reached or when a predetermined number of elapsed rounds. The winner is the player with the most points.

Use

The game is used in some variants as a learning game for the German ( vocabulary, spelling ) and foreign language teaching, even if in the German version of the English or French letter frequency was not taken into account. In addition, you can buy more letter cubes in toy stores.

Version for younger children, as well as a travel version with smaller proportions - In addition, a Boggle Junior exists.

Variants

Parker Brothers brought out some less successful variants of the original game, including:

• A version with a special cube with rare letters. Who used this red-colored cubes in the formation of words, bonus points awarded.
• Body Boggle a Twister -like variant in which two players acted together and should adjust on a letter -stocked floor plan words.
• Mathematics Boggle

Hasbro published 1997, a PC version ( for Windows 95). It was developed by PCA Graphics and was simultaneously with up to four players in a network playable. In addition, four other game modes called 3D Boggle, word battle, space and wells were added to the normal version.