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Description
Boggle is a skill-based variation of Hasbro’s Boggle where the player must take different letter tiles and combine them together to make words and gain points. The player must use a 4x4 or 5x5 grid, depending on the game mode, of random letters to create words. The letters have the point values associated with them that players would expect from Hasbro’s Scrabble game.
Rules
Each Boggle game consists of 3 rounds. The first round will consist of a Level Container of normal lettered tiles available for spelling words. The second and third rounds will add ‘Scrabble’ type bonus tiles, such as Double Letter, Double Word, Triple Letter, and Triple Word.
Selecting Letters
Each letter must be connected to the previous letter, either side-by-side or diagonally. No individual letter tile may be selected more than once.
There are two ways to select letter tiles. Dragging and tapping.
- Dragging – Drag from one Letter Tile to the next to form a word.
- Tapping – Tap one letter, then another until you have formed a word.
Submitting Words
There are two ways to submit words based on how you are choosing to select the letters. Either by dragging or tapping.
- Dragging – If you use dragging to select letters, once you release your drag, the word will be submitted automatically. If it is a valid word, you will receive points for it.
- Tapping – There are two ways to submit a word with the tap method of letter selection.
- Tap a set of letters to form a word. On the last letter tapped, tap it again to automatically submit the word.
- Tap a set of letters to form a word. Once done with selecting letters, tap the green checkmark button on the Letter Tray to submit your word.
Valid Word Creation
Each word must be at least 2 letters, but not more than 16 letters in a 4 x 4 letter game. In a 5 x 5, proper nouns and abbreviations are not permitted.
When a word is selected, any word formed will be checked against the dictionary. If a valid word is created, it will show the potential score for the word in the Letter Tray. Non-valid words will not show a potential score in the Letter Tray. If a valid word is submitted, the player’s score will go up accordingly.
Game Terminology
Letter Tile
A letter tile refers to one of the wooden tiles that has a letter presented on it along with their point value and if they are double/triple letter or word bonus tiles.
Example of standard tile
Example of bonus tile
Letter Container
The letter container is a grid of 16 letter tiles. Chose letters from the container to form words.
Letter Tray
The letter tray is the section above the Letter Container where every letter selected is placed to create words to submit.
Word List
The word list is the list above the Letter Tray where every valid word made is put alongside their respective point values.
Controls
Delete Button - When selecting letters by tapping, you can tap the delete button on the letter tray to clear out all of your currently selected letters.
Settings Button - Opens the settings pop-up. You can adjust game settings or choose to end the game early from the settings menu.
Submit Button - When selecting letters by tapping, you can tap the submit button on the letter tray to submit your word.
Scoring
Each time a user creates a valid word on the grid, they receive the sum of the points for each letter in the word.
Bonus Tiles
There are bonus tiles in the game that change the point values for either individual letters or for the entire word when used in the creation of a word. They are distinguished by their color and a two-letter abbreviation on the top left corner of the tile. The bonus tiles are as follows:
- Double Letter (DL) - Doubles the value of the tile used in the word
- Triple Letter (TL) - Triples the value of the tile used in the word
- Double Word (DW) - Doubles the value of the word submitted
- Triple Word (TW) - Triples the value of the word submitted
All Letters Bonuses
This bonus will be applied if all the letters in the Letter Container are used to spell words during a round. The All-Letters Bonus is worth 100 points. You can earn this bonus once for each of the three rounds.
5+ Letter Word Bonuses
For every valid 5+ letter word that a user creates, they will receive a bonus to their word score using this formula:
- (Number of letters used – 4) x 5 = bonus points
- Example, player made a 6-letter word:
- (6 - 4) x 5 = 10 bonus points
Upgrading Word Scores
A player can normally only score a word once per round, but it is possible to upgrade the score for a previously scored word in a round if a higher scoring configuration is found. That means that if a player scores a word using no bonus tiles, but then later in the round the player makes the same word again using bonus tiles (thereby increasing the score they should earn for that word), the difference in points should be awarded.
Example - in round two the player makes the word cat (C-A-T) without using bonus tiles and scores 5 points. Later in round two the player makes the word “C-A-T" again but uses a different C that has a double letter bonus. Because the point value of the new configuration is higher, the player is allowed to make the word again but only scores the difference. This would normally score 8 points but since the player already scored 5 points for C-A-T, 3 points are scored instead (the difference).
Tips
- Try to earn the 'All Letters Bonus' - you get an extra 100 points each round if you use all the letters. A small pink dot appears on the tile if you use it that round to help keep track.
- In round 2 and 3 focus on the Double/Triple word bonus and the Double/Triple letter bonus.
- Look for common suffixes or prefixes like -er -ed -es / re- de- ex- in- to get more mileage out of smaller words. Making words plural with an “S” is another easy way to increase your word list.
- Earn bonus scores for five-letter or longer words.
- When tapping letters to form words, on the last letter tapped, tap it again to automatically submit the word.
- Each word must be at least 2 letters, but not more than 16 letters in a 4 x 4 letter game. In a 5 x 5, proper nouns and abbreviations are not permitted.