TANGLET(6)

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version 1.6.10 · 3 versions
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✨ TANGLET(6) — the Games Manual glow-up ✨

okay so this is tanglet, and it lives in section 6 of the manual (that's the Games Manual section, for the girlies keeping track) 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

tanglet — a word finding game, fr fr 🔤✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tanglet [options] [file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay bestie, listen. Tanglet is a single player word finding game, and it's based on Boggle. The whole object of the game? List as many words as you can before the time runs out. That's it. That's the vibe. ⏳

There are several timer modes, and they decide how much time you start with, plus whether you get extra time when you find a word 👑

You can join letters horizontally, vertically, or diagonally in any direction to make a word — as long as the letters are next to each other on the board. Iconic, honestly.

🚨 BUT. Big but. You can not reuse the same letter cells in a single word. Not once. Not ever. 💀

Also, each word has to be at least three letters on a normal board, and four letters on a large board. No shortcuts, no cheating, we play fair here 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — Displays help on commandline options. Your girl needs directions? Here they are 🗺️
  • --help-all — Displays help including Qt specific options. The extra-deep version, for when you want the full lore 🧚
  • -v, --version — Displays version information. Who is she? Find out 💅
  • file — A game file to play. Hand her a game file and she'll play it 🎮

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

qt6options(7) — go read that one too, iykyk 👀

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Report bugs to tanglet@bugs.gottcode.org. Do it, bestie, they wanna know 💌

Copyright © 2009-2026 Graeme Gott

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Like, none. Zero. Not a crumb. 🍓

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Graeme Gott. That's the one. The legend. The main character 🫡

Tanglet 1.6.10 🌸 July 2026 🌸 and that's the whole page, bestie — go find some words and absolutely ate 💖

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