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56 is to find as many words as possible on the Boggle board within the three
58 A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes, each side of
59 each cube displaying a letter of the alphabet or `qu'.
60 Words are formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the
62 The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally,
63 vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube.
64 Cubes cannot be reused.
65 Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long.
67 Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game.
68 .Bl -tag -width boardspec
76 The dictionary is read from stdin and a list of words appearing in
80 Enable debugging output.
84 other than the time of day.
86 Set the time limit for each game from the default 3 minutes to
90 Change the minimum word length from 3 letters to
93 This flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession.
95 This flag allows the same cubes to be considered adjacent to itself.
97 A starting board position can be specified on the command line by
98 listing the board left to right and top to bottom.
101 Help is available during play by typing
103 More detailed information on the game is given there.
105 If there are a great many words in the cube the final display of the words
106 may scroll off of the screen. (On a 25 line screen about 130 words can be
109 No word can contain a
111 that is not immediately followed by a
118 options the display of words found in the board
119 doesn't indicate reused cubes.
121 Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers.
125 Dept. of Computer Science
127 University of British Columbia