While crafting an algorithm to efficiently find all of the words in a Boggle game is pretty straight forward, answering questions such as: by counting their words even if found by other players or reducing the value of longer words.īoggle is interesting from a programmer's perspective as well.
It is also easy to level the playing field for younger players, e.g. Boggle has a lot to offer: it is a fast paced game that scales well to many players, everyone plays at the same time, winning requires skill (pattern recognition and a decent vocabulary) and strategy (trying to find words that other players aren't likely to spot) rather than luck, and it has a high replay value (every game is different). While many of these games deserve to be forgotten (Monopoly, Jenga, Risk, Life, and Snakes and Ladders just to name a few), the venerable Boggle still reigns as one of the few great word games.
In the era of modern tabletop games such as Apples to Apples, Dixit, Sushi Go, Hive, Zombie Dice, and Tokaido (all great games), the classics are often left behind.
