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1 | .TH BOGGLE 6 "1 February 1983" |
2 | .UC 4 | |
3 | .SH NAME | |
4 | boggle \- play the game of boggle | |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
6 | .B /usr/games/boggle | |
7 | [ | |
8 | .B + | |
9 | ] [ | |
10 | .B ++ | |
11 | ] | |
12 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
13 | This program is intended for people wishing to sharpen their | |
14 | skills at Boggle (TM Parker Bros.). | |
15 | If you invoke the program with 4 arguments of 4 letters each, | |
16 | .RI ( e.g. | |
17 | .RB \*(lq "boggle appl epie moth erhd" \*(rq) | |
18 | the program forms the obvious Boggle grid and lists all the words from | |
19 | .B /usr/dict/words | |
20 | found therein. If you invoke the program without arguments, it will generate | |
21 | a board for you, let you enter words for 3 minutes, and then tell you | |
22 | how well you did relative to | |
23 | .BR /usr/dict/words . | |
24 | .PP | |
25 | The object of Boggle is to find, within 3 | |
26 | minutes, as many words as possible in a 4 by 4 grid of letters. Words | |
27 | may be formed from any sequence of 3 or more adjacent letters in the | |
28 | grid. The letters may join horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. | |
29 | However, no position in the grid may be used more than once within any | |
30 | one word. In competitive play amongst humans, each player is given | |
31 | credit for those of his words which no other player has found. | |
32 | .PP | |
33 | In interactive play, enter your words separated by spaces, tabs, | |
34 | or newlines. A bell will ring when there is 2:00, 1:00, 0:10, 0:02, | |
35 | 0:01, and 0:00 time left. You may complete any word started before the | |
36 | expiration of time. You can surrender before time is up by hitting | |
37 | \&'break'. While entering words, your erase character is only effective | |
38 | within the current word and your line kill character is ignored. | |
39 | .PP | |
40 | Advanced players may wish to invoke the program with 1 or 2 +'s as | |
41 | the first argument. The first + removes the restriction that positions | |
42 | can only be used once in each word. The second + causes a position to | |
43 | be considered adjacent to itself as well as its (up to) 8 neighbors. |