This is a single-player version of a popular word game called Boggle. It is implemented as a Java application that you can download if you have Java installed on your system.

The board arrangement is random, so some games will contain more words than others.

The aim is to make as many different words that you can from the grid shown. Words must be in a dictionary and have three letters or more.

You can use letters on tiles that are next to each other, or on a diagonal, but you cannot use the same tile more than once.

• Click 'shake' a few times.
  
• Press 'clue' to tell you how many words the computer has found.
  
• Find your words and type them on separate lines in the text area at the bottom.
  
• Press 'count' to make the computer count your words, removing any duplicates, 1 or 2 letter words and blank lines.
  
• Click 'solve' to show the words that the computer found.
  

Requirements:

• Java 1.2 or above (available from Sun Microsystems)
  

Download Boggle Now (ZIP file, 31Kb)

Boggle compares the words that it finds to those in the file 'dictionary.txt' in order to solve them. This version of the dictionary file contains 9704 words, none longer than six letters.

If you want to make the computer smarter, either edit the dictionary.txt file to add more words yourself, or get a much larger list of words from somewhere (the internet?) and copy your list over the top of Boggle's dictionary file.

In principle, it should be possible to make Boggle work in different languages by changing the dictionary file. I'd be very interested to know if anyone actually manages to achieve this.

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18th June 2001