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- BogOut for Windows
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- Playing the Game
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- Rules of the Game
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- Preferences
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- Options
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- Playing the Game
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- Description
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- Starting the Game
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- Entering Words
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- Timer
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- Finding Words on the Board
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- Description
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- This is a game based on the dice game BOGGLE, modified for Windows. The game is
- played with a board of square holes the size of dice. There is one dice for each hole with a letter
- on each side. The die are shaken until they fall into the holes. Then a timer is set to stop after
- three minutes, and the player(s) try to find words on the board until the timer stops.
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- Starting the Game
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- To play the game, select the options you want (see Preferences). Then select "New Game"
- (for a new board) or "Restart Game" (to play the same board) from the Game menu. Press
- <enter> when the message box appears.
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- Entering Words
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- You want to find as many words as you can. Enter each word you see in the board (see Rules
- of the Game). There are three ways of entering words. You may hold down the left mouse button
- and drag the mouse over each dice with the letters you want, then release the mouse button
- when the word is complete. You may click on each letter of the word with the mouse, or you may
- type the word on the keyboard. With the last two methods you can complete the word in three
- ways. You can hit <enter>, or click the right mouse button, or click on the pushbutton labeled
- "Enter" under the board. To erase a word, you can either hit <escape> or click on the pushbutton
- labeled "Cancel" under the board. If the word is not accepted for some reason, a message box
- will be displayed to describe the error. You can then hit <enter> to correct the word, or hit
- <escape> to erase the word. You may stop the game any time by selecting "Stop Game" from
- the Game Menu.
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- Timer
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- You have three minutes to find words (unless you change the time limit in the preferences'
- box). A timer is displayed to show how much time is left (see Timer Type). When time is up, a
- message box will come up, and you can't enter any more words.
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- Finding Words on the Board
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- To see at the words you entered, or words the computer found (if you selected option Show
- Words), use the scroll bar on the right of the word list. To show where a word is on the board,
- double-click the word that you want to see, and that word will be mapped out on the board.
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- Rules of The Game
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- Forming Words
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- Scoring
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- Forming Words
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- To form words, start with any dice on the board, and move to any adjacent dice. Each dice
- can be left, right, up, down, or diagonal from the last. You cannot use the same dice twice in the
- same word, but if there are two separate die with the same letter, you can use both in the same
- word.
- For example, on the board:
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- Y T R O N
- E I E A N
- A Z I N L
- S P G L E
- H O E S F
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- TIRE can be formed by "T"(row 1, column 2) "I"(row 2, column 2) "R"(row 1, column 3) "E"(row 2,
- column 3). SELL is "S"(row 5, column 4) "E" (row 4, column 5) "L"(row 3, column 5) "L"(row 4,
- column 4). POPE is invalid - "P"(row 4, column 2) "O"(row 5, column 2) "P"(row 4, column 2)
- "E"(row 5, column 3) - because the same "P" is used twice. Words must be at least four letters
- long.
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- Scoring
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- The scoring is as follows:
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- 4 letter words ............... 1 point
- 5 letter words ............... 2 points
- 6 letter words ............... 3 points
- 7 letter words ............... 5 points
- 8 or more letter words ...... 11 points
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- The points for each word are added for the total score. The top ten scores are saved depending
- on the options chosen, Board Size and Contained Words. If Look up Words is not chosen or if
- the Time Limit is more than three minutes, the score is not saved. To erase all scores, delete the
- file "TOPTEN.DAT".
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- Preferences
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- Contained Words
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- Look up Words
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- Show Words
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- Multiple Players
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- Minimum Points
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- Time Limit
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- Board Size
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- Word Order
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- Timer Type
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- Contained Words
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- Determines whether words that are contained in other words are allowed. For example, if
- Contained Words is not chosen, and "RESTOCKS" was already entered, the words "REST,"
- STOCK", and "STOCKS" would not be allowed.
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- Look up Words
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- Determines whether the word will be checked in the dictionary to see if it is real.
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- Show Words
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- With this option selected, all words found on the board will be displayed in a separate list
- when the game is finished.
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- Multiple Players
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- Use this option to let two or more people (up to ten) play against each other on the same
- board. The first player can choose "New Game" while the other players are not looking. When
- the first player is finished, he chooses "Restart Game", and lets the next player play. The next
- player must hit <enter> for the box that says "Game Ready" to see the board. When this player
- is done, he chooses "Restart Game" for the third player, etc. The player's scores can be seen by
- selecting Player scores under the "options" menu.
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- Minimum Points
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- This will cause the game board to have a total point count of at least the number entered.
- The computer will continue creating boards and counting up the total points (the total points of
- each board will be displayed in gray) until it finds a board with at least the number entered. If a
- large number is entered, it may take the computer a very long time to create the board. You may
- either type the number in the box, or click on the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the
- number.
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- Time Limit
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- This determines the number of seconds that you have to enter words. The default is 180
- (three minutes). You may either type the number in the box, or click on the up and down arrows
- to increase or decrease the number.
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- Board Size
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- Determines whether the board will hold four die in each row and column or five die in each
- row and column.
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- Word Order
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- Determines the order that words in the player and computer's lists are displayed in the list
- box, either sorted alphabetically, sorted by increasing word length, or decreasing word length.
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- Timer Type
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- Determines whether the timer will be a digital clock, a bar, or an hourglass.
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- Options
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- Preferences (See above)
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- Player scores
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- High scores
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- Add dictionary word
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- Delete dictionary word
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- Player scores
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- Displays all players scores in a multiple player game.
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- High scores
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- Displays the top ten scores recorded.
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- Add dictionary word
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- Add a word to the game dictionary.
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- Delete dictionary word
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- Delete a word from the game dictionary.