4 Enter word: <return> or <linefeed> or <space>
5 Delete previous character: <delete> or <backspace>
6 Delete line: <^u> or <^w>
7 Redraw screen: <^l> or <^r>
9 Resume game: <^q> or <^s>
11 Give up on current cube: <^d>
12 Show remaining time: <space> first thing on a line
13 Show help: ? (Suspends timer until done)
16 (^u means "control u", etc.)
18 Any time you are prompted while the board is displayed you can type:
20 to see where "word" is on the board.
23 boggle [-Bbcd] [-t time] [-w length] [+[+]] [boardspec]
25 -B: big boggle mode, uses a 5x5 board
26 -b: batch mode (boardspec must be present); dictionary read from stdin
27 -c: a challenge cube will be added to the board
29 -t time: time limit in seconds instead of default 180
30 -w length: minimum word length in letters instead of default 3
31 +: can reuse a cube, but not twice in succession
32 ++: can reuse cubes arbitrarily
33 boardspec: the first board to use (use 'q' for 'qu'); e.g.:
34 boggle nolezeebnqieegei
38 A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes.
39 You have 3 minutes to find as many words as possible in the Boggle board.
40 Words are formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the
41 game's dictionary. The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally,
42 vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube. Cubes cannot be reused.
43 Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long.
47 Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game.
48 The '+' flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession.
49 The '++' flag makes each cube adjacent to itself.
50 The time limit can be changed from the default 3 minutes by using the
51 flag '-t time' where 'time' is the duration (in seconds) of each game.
52 The minimum word length can be changed from 3 letters by specifying
53 '-w length' where 'length' is the minimum number of letters to use.
56 Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!
57 Dept. of Computer Science| ubc-vision!ubc-csgrads!brachman
58 Univ. of British Columbia| Internet: brachman@cs.ubc.ca
59 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | brachman%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
60 (604) 228-5010 | brachman@ubc.csnet
62 Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers.