I discovered online Boggle
Click this link if you don't want to do any work today!
Update: for those not familiar with the beautiful game of Boggle, it goes like this:
The aim of the game is to find as many words of three or more letters as possible within the time limit. You cannot use letters twice nor can you skip letters, but you can track diagonally, vertically or horizontally; down to up, up to down; left to right or right to left. The longer the word, the more points you get.
3, 4 letters = 1 point
5 letters = 2 points
6 letters = 3 points
7 letters = 5 points
8 or more = 11 points
Acronyms and abbreviations are, generally-speaking, not allowed (although this online version is played with a crappy American dictionary, so there are some oddities in there - and Americanised spellings). Plurals are allowed, although at home we don't have them because they're kind of 'weak' plays, but proper nouns (place names, etc.) are not - and neither are brand names.
In the table-top version of Boggle, after the time is up, you go through and cross-out any words that other players have. You score points for anything unique to you. In this online version (where up to 200 people are in the game), this rule has, understandably, been removed.
I think Boggle's a great game - made all the more brilliant for its simplicity. If you enjoy the online version, you can buy the table-top game from most toy shops for about 10UKP.
2007/01/08
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