1.\" $NetBSD: boggle.6,v 1.5 2002/09/26 18:31:59 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" Barry Brachman. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 20.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 22.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 23.\" without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" @(#)boggle.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/11/93 38.\" 39.Dd April 1, 2001 40.Dt BOGGLE 6 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm boggle 44.Nd word search game 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl bd 48.Op Fl s Ar seed 49.Op Fl t Ar time 50.Op Fl w Ar length 51.Op + Op + 52.Op boardspec 53.Sh DESCRIPTION 54The object of 55.Nm 56is to find as many words as possible on the Boggle board within the three 57minute time limit. 58A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes, each side of 59each cube displaying a letter of the alphabet or `qu'. 60Words are formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the 61game's dictionary. 62The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally, 63vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube. 64Cubes cannot be reused. 65Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long. 66.Pp 67Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game. 68.Bl -tag -width boardspec 69.It Fl b 70Run 71.Nm 72in batch mode. 73A 74.Ar boardspec 75must also be given. 76The dictionary is read from stdin and a list of words appearing in 77.Ar boardspec 78is printed to stdout. 79.It Fl d 80Enable debugging output. 81.It Fl s Ar seed 82Specify a seed 83.Ar seed 84other than the time of day. 85.It Fl t Ar time 86Set the time limit for each game from the default 3 minutes to 87.Ar time 88seconds. 89.It Fl w Ar length 90Change the minimum word length from 3 letters to 91.Ar length . 92.It Ar + 93This flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession. 94.It Ar ++ 95This flag allows the same cubes to be considered adjacent to itself. 96.It Ar boardspec 97A starting board position can be specified on the command line by 98listing the board left to right and top to bottom. 99.El 100.Pp 101Help is available during play by typing 102.Ic Sq ? . 103More detailed information on the game is given there. 104.Sh BUGS 105If there are a great many words in the cube the final display of the words 106may scroll off of the screen. 107(On a 25 line screen about 130 words can be displayed.) 108.Pp 109No word can contain a 110.Sq q 111that is not immediately followed by a 112.Sq u . 113.Pp 114When using the 115.Ar + 116or 117.Ar ++ 118options the display of words found in the board doesn't indicate reused cubes. 119.Sh AUTHOR 120Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers. 121.Pp 122Barry Brachman 123.br 124Dept. of Computer Science 125.br 126University of British Columbia 127