Boggle

Boggle
Game data
author	Alan Turoff
publishing company	Parker Brothers , ; Hasbro , ; et al. a.
Publishing year	1972
Art	Letter game
Teammates	1 to 10
Duration	5 - 10 minutes
Age	from 8 years

Boggle is a puzzle game with letters and words by Alan Turoff . It was published by Parker Brothers in the United States in 1972 , albeit with little success. After a new publication in 1976, millions of copies were sold in 1977. In 1978 it was published by Parker in Germany, a new edition appeared in 2004.

The game, which lasts around five minutes, can be played with any number of players aged around eight. In 1997, Hasbro released the game for the PC under the same name. In 2010, the new electronic version of the game appeared as Boggle Flash, followed by the corresponding Langenscheidt edition, which explicitly compares the words placed with official dictionaries, and the Boggle alphabet soup as a version of the game for the little ones too.

equipment

Count to the content of the game

an egg timer (hourglass) to limit the time,
the shape with four by four fields,
16 cubes showing different letters
the lid, so that no cube falls to the ground when you "boggle" ,
the rule of the game .

Pens and paper are also required.

regulate

After another player has boggled and the hourglass has been turned, the grid is revealed. Now the players have to form words with at least three letters, so that consecutive letters lie next to each other (also diagonally) and no dice is used twice. Jumps in the word are therefore not allowed. In addition, proper names and foreign language words as well as abbreviations are prohibited. In contrast, inflected verbs or declined nouns and plural forms can be used. The more letters a word has, the more points are awarded for it.

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

Word length	Points
3, 4	1
5	2
6th	3
7th	5
8+	11

When the game time has elapsed, all the words found are read out and, as in some variants of the well-known guessing game City, Country, River , all duplicate terms must be deleted.

the end of the game

The game ends when either a certain number of points has been reached or when a predetermined number of game rounds has passed. The winner is the teammate with the most points.

commitment

The game serves in some variants as an educational game for German ( vocabulary , spelling ) and foreign language lessons, even if the English or French letter frequency was not taken into account in the German version. You can also buy letter cubes in toy stores.

variants

Parker Brothers brought out a few more, sometimes less successful, variants of the original game, including:

Maxi Boggle with 25 letters, published 1981
A version with a special cube with rare letters. Anyone who used this red colored cube to form the words received bonus points.
Body Boggle a variant similar to the Twister , in which two players acted together and had to recreate words on a floor plan filled with letters.
Mathematics Boggle

Hasbro released a PC version (for Windows 95 ) in 1997 . It was developed by PCA Graphics and was playable with up to four players at the same time in the network . In addition, four more game modes called 3D Boggle , Word Fight , Space and Fountain have been added to the normal version . There are several online variants on the Internet, e.g. B. Sixteen and Wortopia .

There is also a Boggle Junior version for younger children, as well as a travel version with smaller dimensions.