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 / Hasbro, Inc. more...

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Rules

Play begins by randomizing a tray of 16 cubical dice, normally 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 the letters of sequentially adjacent cubes. Here, the meaning of "adjacent" includes the horizontally, vertically, and diagonally neighboring cubes. 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 QU. This is because Q is (almost) always followed by U in English words. If there were 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, QU 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.

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 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 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.

Trivia

On the King of the Hill episode "Peggy the Boggle Champ", Peggy Hill represented Arlen in the fictional Texas State Boggle Championships. 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.;