Paul DeStefano
United States
Long Island
New York
It's a Zendrum. www.zendrum.com
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You have 3 minutes.
Tracing paths only between adjacent letters, no backtracking.
Diagonal OK.
No 3 letter words (too many).
GO.
My answers, in review:
I think Boggle is an elegant mental dexterity game, deserving to be an eternal classic. Just altering the order of the tiny letter cubes and setting the timer opens so many new answers. Unfortunately, the lame hourglass doesn't emit a ring.
To determine the best words in the entire range dealt under the tinted plastic mantle is a talent. Arming yourself with vocabulary helps, but just tearing through every mated pair of letters of merit works as well. Later, you'll lament that your list isn't as unique as mine. The meat of the game is in finding neater words the others don't name so your score isn't negated.
While not meant to be a trivia game, that doesn't mean it isn't. Vocabulary trivia and external knowledge goes a long way. The meta game of extra information plays in many of the word game genre to earn points, so learn to deal with it.
Always delegate someone with a dictionary or near a terminal and agree on what's official before you enter a game to negate any rant.
Play fast and lean, like a marine, put the pedal to the metal and just tear through every term you see. You don't have the amenity of time. No need to be gentle or tame, get everything you can, play like a meanie.
If you seem get stuck in gear for an eternity, exert your attention on other cubes in the meantime.
Sometimes, when you tire, your mind feels melted and you see a mirage cube. Other players will be elated when they find you minted a letter that wasn't there to alter your answers, now fit for the latrine.
Forgetting simple anagrams (tang to gnat) is costly. Also don't forget to trim words like ragtime to shorter words if you play allowing 3 letters. The next tier of playing is when you can view the board as flexible latex. Otherwise, you'll sit in irate rage when you see you missed a high scoring word like minaret or nitrate and no one wants to hear those words lamented over and over.
When my dear angel mate was stuck in bed on maternity leave, unable to lift an extremity, this was the game we played each meal without her exerting herself.
Under rated.
When will I play?
Anytime.
(note - yes, of course, I manually made the layout for some words I needed, then found more. There's LOTS more, but I couldn't figure how to get an anime ermine emirate agent to make sense in the review.)
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Snooze Festival
United States
Hillsborough
North Carolina
We love our pups!! Misu, RIP 28 Nov 2010. Tikka, RIP 11 Aug 2011.
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Geosphere wrote: [size=18]
(note - yes, of course, I manually made the layout for some words I needed, then found more. There's LOTS more, but I couldn't figure how to get an anime ermine emirate agent to make sense in the review.)
Playing Boggle is much better than watching anime. In about the same time it takes for you to imagine an agent of the Saudi emirate appearing out of nowhere and putting you out of your misery, a game of Boggle is already over!
Nice review!
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Paul DeStefano
United States
Long Island
New York
It's a Zendrum. www.zendrum.com
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Like I said, I couldn't figure out how to get it to make sense...
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United States
Lexington
Kentucky
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age
agent
ale
alter
altering
amen
amenity
angel
ant
ante
anti
any
anytime
are
arm
arming
art
arty
ate
deal
dealt
dean
dear
dearie
delegate
delta
deter
determine
dexterity
ear
earn
eat
eater
elan
elated
elegant
elegy
elm
emir
emirate
emit
enter
entire
era
ermine
eternal
eternity
exert
exerting
extant
external
extra
extremity
gal
gale
game
gate
gated
gear
gel
gem
gen
genie
genre
gent
gentle
gnat
inter
irate
ire
lag
lame
lament
lamented
lane
late
later
latex
latrine
lean
leant
learn
learnt
led
leg
legate
lent
let
mag
male
malt
malted
man
mane
mange
mangy
mantel
mantle
mantled
many
mar
mare
marine
mart
martin
mat
mate
mated
mater
maternity
meal
mean
meanie
meant
meantime
meany
meat
mega
melt
melted
men
mental
merit
met
metal
mete
meted
minaret
mine
mingy
mint
minted
minty
mirage
mire
mitre
nae
nag
name
near
neat
neater
negate
negated
nit
nitrate
rag
rage
ragtime
ram
ran
rang
range
rani
rant
ranted
rat
rate
rated
rein
remit
rim
ring
tag
tale
talent
tame
tan
tang
tangy
tar
tarn
tart
tarting
tarty
tea
teal
team
tear
tearing
ted
term
terminal
terming
tern
tie
tier
time
timer
tin
tine
ting
tinge
tint
tinted
tiny
tire
tram
trim
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Brad N
United States
Madison
Wisconsin
There are 7 games I want to play by June 30th, 2012
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I love Boggle (at least Big Boggle or Boggle Master where 4 letters are the minimum). Nice review and thanks for the exercise!!!
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Derwood Willard Tripp
United States
White Trash
Idaho
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Nice.
My Big Boggle game is now 30+ years old. It's been played several thousand times.
Beautiful game.
And yes, 3-letter words are for wimps. When my children played with me back in the 80's/90's I let them do 3-letter words and I had to follow the rules. Made for an exciting game and gave them lots of confidence building small victories.
Thanks Paul for reviewing this one.
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Paul DeStefano
United States
Long Island
New York
It's a Zendrum. www.zendrum.com
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DWTripp wrote: When my children played with me back in the 80's/90's I let them do 3-letter words and I had to follow the rules. Made for an exciting game and gave them lots of confidence building small victories.
Thanks Paul for reviewing this one.
GREAT idea.
And you're welcome.
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Paul DeStefano
United States
Long Island
New York
It's a Zendrum. www.zendrum.com
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While I'm glad everyone enjoyed the review, there is no need to keep sending me your word lists. There's no real prize, guys.
Thanks.
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