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Commands:
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Enter word: <return> or <linefeed> or <space>
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Delete previous character: <delete> or <backspace>
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Delete line: <^u> or <^w>
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Redraw screen: <^l> or <^r>
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Pause game: <^s>
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Resume game: <^q> or <^s>
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Suspend game (BSD only): <^z>
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Give up on current cube: <^d>
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Show remaining time: <space> first thing on a line
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Show help: ? (Suspends timer until done)
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Exit game: <^c>
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(^u means "control u", etc.)
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[Note for users of versions of this program that do not display a timer:
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The first word entered after the timer has run out causes a list of all the
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words you found, the words you missed, and your running statistics to be
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displayed.]
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Any time you are prompted while the board is displayed you can type:
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<esc>word
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to see where "word" is on the board.
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Usage:
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bog [-b] [-d] [-s#] [-t#] [-w#] [+[+]] [boardspec]
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-b: batch mode (boardspec must be present); dictionary read from stdin
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-d: debug mode
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-s#: use # as the random number seed
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-t#: time limit is # seconds instead of default 180
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-w#: minimum word length is # letters instead of default 3
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+: can reuse a cube, but not twice in succession
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++: can reuse cubes arbitrarily
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boardspec: the first board to use (use 'q' for 'qu'); e.g.:
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bog nolezeebnqieegei
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Default Rules
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A Boggle board is a four by four arrangement of Boggle cubes.
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You have 3 minutes to find as many words as possible in the Boggle board.
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Words are formed by finding a sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the
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game's dictionary. The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally,
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vertically, or diagonally adjacent to the Nth cube. Cubes cannot be reused.
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Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long.
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Options
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Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game.
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The '+' flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession.
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The '++' flag makes each cube adjacent to itself.
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The time limit can be changed from the default 3 minutes by using the flag
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'-t#', where # is the duration (in seconds) of each game.
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The minimum word length can be changed from 3 letters by specifying 'w#',
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where # is the minimum number of letters to use.
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Bugs and Limitations
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The following bugs and problems are known to exist:
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- If there are a great many words in the cube the final display of the words
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may scroll off of the screen. (On a 25 line screen about 130 words can be
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displayed.)
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- Computing the complete word list can be too slow on small machines.
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- No word can contain a 'q' that is not immediately followed by a 'u'.
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- When using the '+' or '++' options the display of words found in the board
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doesn't indicate reused cubes.
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About This Program
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Boggle is under the standard BSD licence. Bugs should be reported to
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your distributor; the original author is no longer supporting the
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program.
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Copyright (c) 1988
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Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!
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Dept. of Computer Science| ubc-vision!ubc-csgrads!brachman
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Univ. of British Columbia| Internet: brachman@cs.ubc.ca
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Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | brachman%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
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(604) 228-5010 | brachman@ubc.csnet
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Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers.
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