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75 is to find as many words as possible on the Boggle board within the three
77 A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes, each side of
78 each cube displaying a letter of the alphabet or
80 Words are formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the
82 The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally,
83 vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube.
84 Cubes cannot be reused.
85 Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long.
87 Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game:
88 .Bl -tag -width boardspec
90 Use an alternate five by five arrangement of Boggle cubes.
91 In this mode the default minimum word length is 4 letters.
92 This arrangement has been marketed over the years under the names
104 The dictionary is read from stdin and a list of words appearing in
106 is printed to stdout.
110 to the board, which contains less commonly used letters.
111 The challenge cube will be displayed in boldface on the board.
112 Depending on the terminal capabilities, it may be displayed in
113 underline or a different color (such as red).
115 Enable debugging output.
117 Change the time limit for each game from the default 3 minutes to
121 Change the minimum word length from 3 letters to
124 Allow a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession.
126 Allow a cube to be considered adjacent to itself.
129 A starting board position,
131 can be specified on the command line by
132 listing the board left to right and top to bottom, in lower case.
134 Help is available during play by typing
136 More detailed information on the game is given there.
138 .Bl -tag -width 36n -compact
139 .It Pa /usr/share/games/boggle/dictionary
140 compressed dictionary
141 .It Pa /usr/share/games/boggle/dictindex
143 .It Pa /usr/share/games/boggle/helpfile
147 Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers.
150 Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
152 No word can contain a
154 that is not immediately followed by a
161 options the display of words found in the board doesn't clearly indicate