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Boggle

A word game of lettered dice and timed discovery.

Boggle

Amit6 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Players of the 1973 word game Boggle search a grid of lettered dice for words before time expires.[1] Allan Turoff created Boggle, and Parker Brothers first distributed it.[2]

Quick Facts

Manufacturer
Parker Brothers (now Hasbro); Winning Moves Games USA
Designer
Allan D. Turoff (Inventor)
Genre
Word game; Dice game
Players
2+
Setup time
1 minute
Skills
Language
Materials
Paper and writing utensil

Facts from the source article.

Making and release

Allan Turoff was a New York-based designer trained at the Pratt Institute who shifted to toy and game development in 1964.[3] Parker Brothers initially rejected the design but revisited it in 1972 when developing a line of word games.[4] The game was renamed Boggle and released commercially for the 1973 holiday season.[4] A standard set uses 16 cubic dice that settle into a 4×4 tray.[5]

A three-minute sand timer starts the main phase of play.[5] Hasbro UK released Super Boggle in 2004 with both grid sizes and an electronic timer.[6] Turoff's initial toy concept was not produced because of high manufacturing expenses.[7] A prototype for a word game, initially called Find-A-Word, was constructed by Turoff in 1969.[7]

A 5×5 tray was used in Big Boggle (also sold as Boggle Master and Boggle Deluxe), and words of only three letters were not permitted.[6]

What the cited sources add

The book "A Board Game Education" notes that the longest possible words from a standard Boggle set include inconsequentially, quadricentennials, and sesquicentennials.[8][9] Competitive play of mboggle on MIT's Project Athena was happening by 1989.[10] Boggle clubs are officially recognized at Dartmouth College, Western Oregon University, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, Canyon Crest Academy, and Grinnell College.[11] No organization governs Boggle tournaments at a national or international level.[12]

Boggle was listed among Games magazine's "Top 100 Games of 1980".[13]

Gallery

Boggle
Stilfehler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boggle
Andrew Malone · CC BY 2.0

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Christian, "The Games Game", The Houston Post, December 7, 1977, p. 67 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Murphy, "Toy Designer's Creations, Bill Cooke, 1974 Boggle the Mind", Milwaukee Sentinel, 1978-12-09; Hinebaugh, "A Board Game Education", R&L Education, 2009, p. 57–65 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Self, "Designer Transforms Ideas", The Kansas City Star, December 12, 1976, p. 87 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Self, "Designer Transforms Ideas", The Kansas City Star, December 12, 1976, p. 87; Self, "Designer Transforms Ideas", The Kansas City Star, December 12, 1976, p. 87; Self, "Designer Transforms Ideas", The Kansas City Star, December 12, 1976, p. 87 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: BOGGLE Game Instructions - Hasbro, Retrieved December 3, 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hasbro catalog", Hasbro.com, 2012-04-03 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Self, "Designer Transforms Ideas", The Kansas City Star, December 12, 1976, p. 87; Self, "Designer Transforms Ideas", The Kansas City Star, December 12, 1976, p. 87 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hinebaugh, "A Board Game Education", R&L Education, 2009, p. 57–65 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Open Library record, ISBN 9781607092605 ("A board game education"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Garfinkel, Simson L., "The Hackers are Still Ahead", Technology Review, April 1989, p. 4–7; Wasserman, "Ruzzle Is the First Breakout Hit of 2013", Mashable, 9 January 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Collis Center for Student Involvement -", www.dartmouth.edu, 13 April 2017; Western Oregon University Student Union site; University of Michigan Student Union site; "University of California Student Union site", Uga.berkeley.edu, 2008-02-21; "Grinnell Student Union site", Grinnell.edu, 2012-04-15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Turner, "Boggle Is Better Than Scrabble", Slate, 2013-08-01; Troy, "GitHub - NoahTroy/Roboxum: A Free, Open-Source Word Finder Puzzle Generator.", 2019-03-26 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  13. Wikipedia, "Boggle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Top 100 Games of 1980", November–December 1980, p. 44 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Boggle (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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