Boggle

Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and distributed by Hasbro. It involves a board made up of 16 cubic dice, where each die has a letter printed on each of its 6 sides. At the beginning of the game, the 16 dice are shaken and randomly distributed into a 4-by-4 tray, with only the top sides of the dice visible. (An online generator does this for you.). The players compete to accumulate points by building valid words from the dice, according to these rules:

  • A valid word must be composed by following a sequence of adjacent dice—two dice are adjacent if they are horizontal, vertical, or diagonal neighbors.

  • A valid word can use each die at most once.

  • A valid word must contain at least 3 letters.

  • A valid word must be in the dictionary (which typically does not contain proper nouns).