1 2Commands: 3 4Enter word: <return> or <linefeed> or <space> 5Delete previous character: <delete> or <backspace> 6Delete line: <^u> or <^w> 7Redraw screen: <^l> or <^r> 8Pause game: <^s> 9Resume game: <^q> or <^s> 10Suspend game: <^z> 11Give up on current cube: <^d> 12Show remaining time: <space> first thing on a line 13Show help: ? (Suspends timer until done) 14Exit game: <^c> 15 16(^u means "control u", etc.) 17 18Any time you are prompted while the board is displayed you can type: 19 <esc>word 20to see where "word" is on the board. 21 22Usage: 23 boggle [-Bbcd] [-t time] [-w length] [+[+]] [boardspec] 24 25 -B: big boggle mode, uses a 5x5 board 26 -b: batch mode (boardspec must be present); dictionary read from stdin 27 -c: a challenge cube will be added to the board 28 -d: debug mode 29 -t time: time limit in seconds instead of default 180 30 -w length: minimum word length in letters instead of default 3 31 +: can reuse a cube, but not twice in succession 32 ++: can reuse cubes arbitrarily 33 boardspec: the first board to use (use 'q' for 'qu'); e.g.: 34 boggle nolezeebnqieegei 35. 36 Default Rules 37 38A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes. 39You have 3 minutes to find as many words as possible in the Boggle board. 40Words are formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the 41game's dictionary. The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally, 42vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube. Cubes cannot be reused. 43Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long. 44. 45 Options 46 47Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game. 48The '+' flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession. 49The '++' flag makes each cube adjacent to itself. 50The time limit can be changed from the default 3 minutes by using the 51flag '-t time' where 'time' is the duration (in seconds) of each game. 52The minimum word length can be changed from 3 letters by specifying 53'-w length' where 'length' is the minimum number of letters to use. 54. 55Copyright (c) 1988 56Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}! 57Dept. of Computer Science| ubc-vision!ubc-csgrads!brachman 58Univ. of British Columbia| Internet: brachman@cs.ubc.ca 59Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | brachman%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa 60(604) 228-5010 | brachman@ubc.csnet 61 62Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers. 63