Re: [Audyssey] BG Boggle ruels
Cool trivia and thanks for the rules. Ken Downey President DreamTechInteractive! And, Coming soon, Blind Comfort! The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: [Audyssey] BG Boggle ruels Hi Folks, I just got my copy of BG Boggle and did not know how to play, so I looked up instructions on the internet. I think the BG version does not have a time limit and you are just trying to find as many words as possible, but the rest of the rules apply. Boggle Rules from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers / Hasbro, Inc. Rules Play begins by randomizing a tray of 16 cubical dice, by shaking. Each has a different letter printed on each of its sides. The dice settle into a four by four tray such 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 sequentially adjacent letters. Adjacent includes horizontally, vertically, and diagonally neighboring letters. 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. The players record all words found by writing on their private sheets of paper. After three minutes have elapsed, all players must stop writing and the game enters the scoring phase. Note that one cube is printed with Q U. This is because Q is (almost) always followed by U in English words . If there was a 'Q' in Boggle, it would have to appear next to a 'U' to be usable. To give players a chance to use the Q more frequently, Q U is provided as a single letter tile. However, for the purposes of scoring 'QU' counts as two letters: squid would score two points (for a five-letter word) but is formed from a chain of only four cubes. Each player reads off his or her list of discovered words. If two or more players wrote the same word, it is discarded 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 the word. 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. Any ties are typically broken by count of long words. The National Scrabble Association maintains an Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) that is suitable for Boggle. This dictionary focuses on including all variant forms of all words, up to eight letters in length. For words with multiple meanings, only a single meaning is given to support the validity of the word. The OSPD is now in its fourth edition (OSPD4), which is widely available in book stores. Since the third edition, the OSPD has excluded words that are racially offensive. Word Length- Points 3 letters 1 4 letters 1 5 letters 2 6 letters 3 7 letters 5 8plus letters 11 Strategy . Given the limited time, it is useful to memorize common sets of anagrams . For example, when one spots the word tea, one instantly checks for the presence of eat, ate, and eta, rather than waiting to stumble across them later. . Before writing any words, one should scan the tray for the letter s and the combinations ed, er, and ing. Being aware of the possibilities often allows one to find words in groups. For example, the word head can lead to heads, headed, header, headers, heading, and headings. . Other useful combinations include ier, est, iest, able, ible, less, ness, ight, tion, and many others. . In a game of many players, it is relatively less beneficial to hunt for common words, because only unique words count. At times two players with long lists of common words will wipe each other out, handing the victory to a third player with a short list of unusual words. Trivia . 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. - Original Message - From: djc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:17 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Fwd: Release of BG Boggle 1.0 This just came in. *** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *** On 10/3/2006 at 10:55 AM Ian Humphreys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ian Humphreys from Spoonbill Software here. You are receiving this email because you have previously requested a Blind gamers game. This is to announce
[Audyssey] BG Boggle ruels
Hi Folks, I just got my copy of BG Boggle and did not know how to play, so I looked up instructions on the internet. I think the BG version does not have a time limit and you are just trying to find as many words as possible, but the rest of the rules apply. Boggle Rules from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers / Hasbro, Inc. Rules Play begins by randomizing a tray of 16 cubical dice, by shaking. Each has a different letter printed on each of its sides. The dice settle into a four by four tray such 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 sequentially adjacent letters. Adjacent includes horizontally, vertically, and diagonally neighboring letters. 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. The players record all words found by writing on their private sheets of paper. After three minutes have elapsed, all players must stop writing and the game enters the scoring phase. Note that one cube is printed with Q U. This is because Q is (almost) always followed by U in English words . If there was a 'Q' in Boggle, it would have to appear next to a 'U' to be usable. To give players a chance to use the Q more frequently, Q U is provided as a single letter tile. However, for the purposes of scoring 'QU' counts as two letters: squid would score two points (for a five-letter word) but is formed from a chain of only four cubes. Each player reads off his or her list of discovered words. If two or more players wrote the same word, it is discarded 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 the word. 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. Any ties are typically broken by count of long words. The National Scrabble Association maintains an Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) that is suitable for Boggle. This dictionary focuses on including all variant forms of all words, up to eight letters in length. For words with multiple meanings, only a single meaning is given to support the validity of the word. The OSPD is now in its fourth edition (OSPD4), which is widely available in book stores. Since the third edition, the OSPD has excluded words that are racially offensive. Word Length- Points 3 letters 1 4 letters 1 5 letters 2 6 letters 3 7 letters 5 8plus letters 11 Strategy . Given the limited time, it is useful to memorize common sets of anagrams . For example, when one spots the word tea, one instantly checks for the presence of eat, ate, and eta, rather than waiting to stumble across them later. . Before writing any words, one should scan the tray for the letter s and the combinations ed, er, and ing. Being aware of the possibilities often allows one to find words in groups. For example, the word head can lead to heads, headed, header, headers, heading, and headings. . Other useful combinations include ier, est, iest, able, ible, less, ness, ight, tion, and many others. . In a game of many players, it is relatively less beneficial to hunt for common words, because only unique words count. At times two players with long lists of common words will wipe each other out, handing the victory to a third player with a short list of unusual words. Trivia . 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. - Original Message - From: djc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:17 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Fwd: Release of BG Boggle 1.0 This just came in. *** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *** On 10/3/2006 at 10:55 AM Ian Humphreys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ian Humphreys from Spoonbill Software here. You are receiving this email because you have previously requested a Blind gamers game. This is to announce the release of Blind gamers Boggle 1.0 - BG Boggle for short. BG Boggle is the accessible version of the popular word game where you make as many words as you can from the sixteen letter cubes arranged in a four by four grid. It is suitable for both blind and visually impaired players, and like all Spoonbill games in the Blind gamers series, it is self-voicing. With BG Boggle, you can generate random games, or enter a game manually.
