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Parker Brothers has introduced several licensed variations on the game. As of 2006 [update], only Boggle Junior and Travel Boggle (also marketed as Boggle Folio) continue to be manufactured and marketed in North America alongside the standard Boggle game, apart from a licensed keychain miniature version. Boggle Junior is a much-simplified version intended for young children. Boggle Travel is a car-friendly version of the standard 4×4 set. The compact, zippered case includes pencils and small pads of paper, as well as an electronic timer, and notably, a cover made from a soft plastic that produces much less noise when the board is shaken. A version of the standard 4×4 set that included a special red "Boggle challenge cube", featuring six relatively uncommon letters. Bonus points are awarded for all words making use of the red cube. Boggle CD-ROM, a version for Windows, produced and marketed by Hasbro Interactive, including both 4×4 and 5×5 versions, several 3-D versions, and facilities allowing up to four players to compete directly over the Internet.

Boggle is a word game in which players try to find as many words as they can from a grid of lettered dice, within a set time limit. It was invented by Allan Turoff [2] and originally distributed by Parker Brothers. [3] Rules [ edit ] Three words found in a sample Boggle game: Unlike Scrabble, there is no national or international governing or rule-making body for Boggle competition and no official tournament regulations exist. [15] When it comes to creating Boggle games for tournament play, most of the time it is done by special software designed to generate completely random and probably fair boards, using words oftentimes pre-selected by the officiating committee. [16] Reception [ edit ] Murphy, Mary Beth (1978-12-09). "Toy Designer's Creations, Bill Cooke, 1974 Boggle the Mind". Milwaukee Sentinel. sec. 1 p. 10. Archived from the original on 2016-03-12 . Retrieved 2016-02-18. Boggle, an interactive game show hosted by Wink Martindale. It aired on The Family Channel (now ABC Family) in 1994, replacing the interactive version of Trivial Pursuit.One cube is printed with "Qu". This is because Q is nearly always followed by U in English words (see exceptions), and if there were a Q in Boggle, it would be challenging to use if a U did not, by chance, appear next to it. For the purposes of scoring, Qu counts as two letters; for example, squid would score two points (for a five-letter word) despite being formed from a chain of only four cubes. Early versions of the game had a "Q" without the accompanying "u".

In 2008, Parker Brothers released a self-contained version of the game with the dice sealed inside a plastic unit and featuring an integrated timer. Although the older version has been discontinued, some retailers refer to the newer one as "Boggle Reinvention" to avoid confusion. While not as widely institutionally established as Scrabble, several clubs have been established for the purpose of organizing Boggle play. Official Boggle clubs exist at a number of educational institutions, including the Dartmouth Union of Bogglers at Dartmouth College, [10] the Western Oregon University Boggle Club, [11] the University of Michigan Boggle Club, [12] Berkeley Boggle Club at the University of California, Berkeley, [13] CCA Boggle Club at Canyon Crest Academy, and Grinnell College Boggle Club. [14]Different versions of Boggle have varying distributions of letters. For example, a more modern version in the UK has easier letters, such as only one K, but an older version (with a yellow box, from 1986) has two Ks and a generally more awkward letter distribution. Merriam-Webster publishes the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, which is also suitable for Boggle. [5] This dictionary includes all variant forms of words up to eight letters in length. A puzzle book entitled 100 Boggle Puzzles (Improve Your Game) offering 100 game positions was published in the UK in 2003 but is no longer in print. Big Boggle, later marketed as Boggle Master and Boggle Deluxe, featured a 5×5 tray, and disallowed three-letter words. Some editions of the Big Boggle set included an adapter that could convert the larger grid into a standard 4×4 Boggle grid. In the United Kingdom, Hasbro UK released Super Boggle in 2004 (now discontinued), which features both the 4×4 and 5×5 grid and an electronic timer that flashes to indicate the start and finish. [6] Despite the game's popularity in North America, no version of Boggle offering a 5×5 grid was marketed outside Europe for an extended period until 2011, when Winning Moves Games USA revived the Big Boggle name for a new version. Their variant features a two-letter die with popular letter combinations such as Qu, Th and In. [7] Players will write down all the words they can find on their own paper. Words must be at least three letters long. Any word that can be found in a basic English dictionary can be used. When the timer goes off, all players will put down their pen/pencils. Then you will take turns reading off the words you found. You’re probably already struggling to fit everything you want to take into your baggage, particularly if traveling as a family, so you don’t want to be carrying around a travel game that is either large in size, or overly heavy. Thankfully, these days the manufacturers have caught the hint, producing dedicated travel versions of many popular games, with Monopoly one of them. Age range

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