BOGGLE(6)

✨ BOGGLE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to boggle, the word search game, from the Games Manual section (section 6, we're in the games girly department 💅). This is the whole vibe, no gatekeeping.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

boggle [-bd] [-s seed] [-t time] [-w length] [+ [+]] [boardspec]

look at that. gorgeous. iconic. let's break it down 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole object of the game — the entire point, the assignment, the moment — is to find as many words as possible on the Boggle board within the three minute time limit. That's it. That's the task.

A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes, and each side of each cube is showing a letter of the alphabet or qu. (yes, qu is out here living its life as one unit, we love that for it 💖)

Words get formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the game's dictionary. And here's the rule, bestie, listen up:

• The (N+1)th cube in the word has to be horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube.
• Cubes cannot be reused. no take-backsies.
• Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long.

Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game. yes, you can absolutely bend the rules, that's the fun part ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -b — Run boggle in batch mode. A boardspec must also be given. The dictionary is read from stdin and a list of words appearing in boardspec is printed to **stdout`. (no screen, no drama, just vibes and output 🎀)
• -d — Enable debugging output. for the girlies who need to see everything happening behind the curtain 👀
• -s seed — Specify a seed seed other than the time of day. (because sometimes you want the board to be a specific kind of chaos 🍓)
• -t time — Set the time limit for each game from the default 3 minutes to time seconds. go ahead, give yourself more time, we're not judging 🫶
• -w length — Change the minimum word length from 3 letters to length. short words girlies rise up 🌈
• + — This flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession. one little hop in between, then you can come back 🦋
• ++ — This flag allows the same cubes to be considered adjacent to itself. it's giving main character cube energy, it's giving no rules, it's giving chaos 💀
• boardspec — A starting board position can be specified on the command line by listing the board left to right and top to bottom. so just type out your whole board, we'll take it from there ⭐

Help is available during play by typing ?. More detailed information on the game is given there. yes bestie, the in-game help is literally right there, go read it 🧚

💀 BUGS 💀

Heads up, these are the known quirks, not features.

• If there are a great many words in the cube, the final display of the words may scroll off of the screen. (On a 25 line screen about 130 words can be displayed.) so if you found too many words, that's a you problem, but also slay ✨
• No word can contain a q that is not immediately followed by a u. sorry to all the q-without-u stans, the game said no 😭
• When using the + or ++ options, the display of words found in the board doesn't indicate reused cubes. so you won't be able to see which cubes got reused. ngl, that's a little cursed 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers.

Barry Brachman Dept. of Computer Science University of British Columbia

okay and that's the whole page 💖 this was the Debian version, dated April 1, 2001, and it's the BOGGLE(6) manpage from the Games Manual. go forth and find words, bestie, you've got three minutes and immaculate energy 🌟