SCRABBLE: Boggle Your Mind
Some word games are better than others to use as tools for learning words and becoming a more powerful scrabble player. One of those games is BOGGLE. While you are searching for words in the Boggle grid, you’ll identify many words which are ‘legal’ to play on the Scrabble board.
BOGGLE comes in two different versions, a Four by Four square and a Five by Five (Super Boggle) configuration. To play boggle one must identify words by starting at any letter in the grid and then form words by selecting a series of other letters that appear in sequence, adjacent to one another, in the exact order that make up the word. You can select additional letters by moving in any direction, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. No single letter can be used twice in any given word.
Can you find the word ‘MEAN’ on the top row?
Can you find the word ‘JAM’, beginning at the ‘J’ and then going diagonally and upward from right to left?
Now try to find ‘MARJORAM’.
Were you successful?
There have been times when I have been stuck in a doctor’s office without a book to read. A simple pen and paper is all I need to amuse myself. I draw a 4 x 4 -or- a 5 x 5 grid and fill the squares with ramdom letters. Then I look at a clock and set a time for 5 or 10 minutes for myself. I create a list of as many words as I can in that amount of time. When playing BOGGLE, the longer the word, the more points. So, I always try to find the longest words.
How Many Words Can You Find in this 5 x 5?
aa, aas, ae, ai, aim, ais, ajar, ajee, am, ami, an, and, ane, are, area, areas, arena, ares, ars, art, arvo, as, at, att, ava, avo, coat, cor, cors, cot, cote, court, de, dean, dear, dee, deep, deer, deet, den, denar, detour, detours, due, duet, duo, dura, durn, ear, ears, earn, earnerd, ed, em, en, end, er, ere, ern, erne, etude, euro, izar, izars, jam, jams, jar, jars, java, jean, jee, jeed, jeu, jo, joe, joram, jorams, jot, jota, jura, jurat, jut, jute, ma, mae, major, majors, maar, maars, mar, mara, mare, mars, mart, mas, masa, me, mean, meander , meanders, meaner, mere, mi, mis, mo, moa, na, nae, ne, near, nears, nee, need, oar, oars, oat, oe, om, or, ora, mors, ort, oud, our, out, ova, pean, pear, pears, ped, pee, peed, pend, rai, raj, raja, rajas, ram, rams, ran, rand, ras, rat, rato, re, ream, red, rede, ree, reed, rei, reis, rem, rend, rep, roc, rout, route, routed, rude, ruder, rued, ruer, rut, sae, same, si, sim, smart, ta, tao, tar, taro, tarot, tars, tarsi, tav, ted, tee, teed, teen. to, tor, tora, toras, tot, tour, toured, tours, tout, touted, tram, trot, trout, trued, truer, turn, turned, urea, urn, ute, var, vara, varas, vars, vas, vat, za, zas
Did you find some words that I missed?