Boggle
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Toys and Games Reviews of Boggle
Customer Review: Boggle is the Best!!
Summary: 5 Stars
My family and I simply love board games. Every holiday season we get about 10 new ones. When I got Boggle for my birthday, I was like, "Oh, wow. This looks really boring and confusing." To my, and my family's, surprise, it was awesome and easy to comprehend and play!!The rules are really simple. All you have to do is shake up the dice with letters on them. Then, flip the 1 minute timer over. Then, write down all the words that are 3 or more letters long that you see.
This is one of our favorite games now. Here is an example of a puzzle you can get. See how many words that are 3 or more letters you can find!!
O R T E
B H U A
E I Y E
S T E M
So, did you find orbit?? What about eat?? Did you see eye?? I'll bet you found stem. There are there are those words and more in those 16 mixed up letters!!
After you write all the words you saw down, you compare them to the other players' answers. When you're comparing, you're normally like, "OMG!! I can't believe I didn't notice that one!" This game is a blast and I strongly recommend it to everyone!!
Customer Review: since i was 7...
Summary: 5 Stars
my family and i have been playing Boggle (that's only 15 years, but to me that's a long time!). At first, of course, my parents always creamed me, but through many, many games, i learned a lot of new words and discovered many tricks to getting a good score (find words within words (tear has ear in it), remember to reverse letters (ten and net are automatically written down when i see one or the other)), and have considered myself an equal player for some time now.I think that my skill at Boggle has been truly helpful for me later in life--my logic skills are good and i can quickly see relations between various objects (not just letters)! By developing these skills when i was young, i've benefited from them ever since.
the only thing i could possibly say that i _don't_ like about it is how noisy it is to shake up the letters...
and whatever happened to the BONUS CUBE? A different-colored cube with more difficult letters (J/Qu/Z, etc) that when used got you extra points. My parents' very old version of the game came with it, but the new one i just bought from amazon didn't.
Customer Review: The ONLY Game there is
Summary: 5 Stars
I do not play board games, plain and simple. Boggle is the exception. I got hooked on it about 18 months ago. It is the most addictive game I've ever played. Its appeal crosses generations -- my 76-year-old father is its most ardent enthusiast. I like it because it keeps his mind sharp.My wife and I compete fiercely. We slightly modify the rules. For example,we allow two turns of the timer per board, allowing us more time to develop words. We say that the game is over after three boards; then we start a new game. This keeps it interesting if someone falls decisively behind. We also give two bonus points (13 in total) if someone develops a nine-letter word. (Play the game, see how difficult THAT is, then you'll see why we think it deserves a bonus.)
I am fortunate to have found a VERY old Big Boggle game in my mother's basement. This game is good, but the BEST game is Master Boggle. I cannot find it anywhere, but my father has it. The mix of letters allows you to develop really cool, exotic words. Last week, I spelled "gestalt."
Customer Review: THE classic word game
Summary: 5 Stars
Boggle is a great word game that is fun for the whole family in which players have three minutes to find as many connected words as they can in a 4x4 grid. It doesn't take long to play (only three minutes to be exact) and you don't need a lot of space to play it. It uses a lot of the same skills as scrabble, but unlike in scrabble you won't keep getting beaten every time by that brainy uncle who must have memorized the dictionary, because most of the words that can be found are only 3 or 4 letters long, and even younger kids have a fair chance to win(occasionally a very long word can be found however - my personal triumph was the 8-letter "nicotine"). Also, you WILL learn new words you never knew existed from this game when people guess them and make you look them up - crazy words like "hie" and "tat" and "coe". Overall a very fun game well worth buying, although I wish they still made the bigger version, because that one's a lot of fun too.Customer Review: Play to raise better writers
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a different "shake" on Boggle: We play it as part of our English studies. Our eleven-year-old is a voracious reader and a decent writer, but, in a techno-age when he can count on WordPerfect, Grammatik, and Spellcheck for help polishing his final drafts, his handwritten drafts can be an atrociously penned garble of spelling errors and less-than-perfect syntax. Playing Boggle has changed that. To compete, he has had to (1) develop a system for scanning the cubes, (2) apply spelling rules to ensure that he's actually got a legitimate word, and (3) improve his penmanship. Over the past six months, these skills have been parlayed into first drafts that don't require nearly as much work as before. He has admitted, too, that writing more clearly from a mechanics standpoint has freed him to work out more challenging ideas and more creative ways of expressing those ideas. How's that for a noisy, fun, portable game that everyone in the family can enjoy?