Typical game contents and scoring example.

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Boggle

Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers and Hasbro. The game is played using a grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. more...

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Rules

The game begins by shaking a covered tray of sixteen cubic dice. Each die has a different letter printed on each of its sides. The dice settle into a four by four tray so that only the top letter of each cube is visible. After they have settled into the grid, a three-minute timer is started and all players simultaneously begin the main phase of play.

Each player searches for words that can be constructed from the letters of sequentially adjacent cubes, where \"adjacent\" cubes are those horizontally, vertically or diagonally neighboring. Words must be at least three letters long, may include singular and plural (or other derived forms) separately, but may not use the same letter cube more than once per word. Each player records all the words he or she finds by writing on a private sheet of paper. After three minutes have elapsed, all players must stop writing and the game enters the scoring phase.

In the scoring phase, each player reads off his or her list of discovered words. If two or more players wrote the same word, it is removed from all players' lists. Any player may challenge the validity of a word, in which case a previously nominated dictionary is used to verify or refute it. For all words remaining after duplicates have been eliminated, points are awarded based on the length of the word. The winner is the player whose point total is highest, with any ties typically broken by count of long words.

One cube is printed with Qu. This is because Q is virtually always followed by U in English words (see exceptions), and if there were a Q in Boggle, it would be unusable if a U did not, by chance, appear next to it. For the purposes of scoring Qu counts as two letters: squid would score two points (for a five-letter word) despite being formed from a chain of only four cubes.

The North American National Scrabble Association publishes the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD), which is also suitable for Boggle. This dictionary includes all variant forms of words up to eight letters in length. A puzzle book entitled 100 Boggle Puzzles (Improve Your Game) offering 100 game positions was published in the UK in 2003 but is no longer in print.

Different versions of Boggle have varying distributions of letters. For example, a more modern version (with a blue box) in the UK has easier letters, such as only one \"K\", but an older version (with a yellow box, from 1986) has two \"K\"s and a generally more awkward letter distribution.

Boggle In The Media

On episode 159 of Seinfeld (\"The Serenity Now\"), Elaine gives a Boggle set as a Bar Mitzvah present.; On episode 2.22 of Friends, called 'The one with the Two Parties', Monica Geller is laughed at by Joey Tribbiani and Chandler Bing when she asks them for silence and explains that she is trying to start a Boggle Tournament in her apartment as a part of Rachel's birthday party.; On the King of the Hill, Boggle is a favorite activity of Peggy Hill. In the episode Peggy the Boggle Champ, she represents Arlen in the Texas State Boggle Championships (there are no official state or national Boggle championships in real life). In another episode, Death and Texas, Peggy unknowingly sneaks cocaine in the sand timer to a prison inmate with whom she plays Boggle.; Adrock of the Beastie Boys mentions the game in the song \"Putting Shame In Your Game,\" declaring: \"I'm the King of Boggle there is none higher, I get eleven points off the word quagmire\".; Using the sixteen cubes in a standard Boggle set, the list of longest words that can be formed includes Inconsequentially, Quadricentennials, and Sesquicentennials, all seventeen letter words made possible by Q and U appearing on the same face of one cube.; On the album The Mouse and the Mask, the game is mentioned in the song \"Mince Meat\", as Daniel Dumile raps: \"A true nerd who messed with new words since Boggle and used slang in Scrabble\".; The pilot episode of The Big Bang Theory the main characters refer to the game by telling Penny that they enjoy a Klingon Boggle, that is the same as regular Boggle but in Klingon.; Comedian Josie Long often has a live Boggle tournament as part of her act. At the Latitude Festival in 2007, she painted a Boggle grid onto the side of a live horse.;