SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE
Written: Sep 14 '00
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Pros: Hours of educational fun for the entire family
Cons: None that I know of
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| ingridjen's Full Review: Boggle |
As a young girl my parents always played games with my siblings and me. When I had children of my own, we too played games. Each year at Christmas, I would give them each a board game that we didn't have, and we would spend hours playing these games. One year I found the cube game of Boggle that we would play nearly every day.
It would seem that all my life I played games of all sorts, then one day both my daughters were in college and I had no one to play games with. That is until I met a lady that moved in my neighborhood. We became friends and discovered we had a common interest and that being games. One day when my friend came to visit I introduced her to Boggle. She enjoyed this game as much as I did and we would play at least once a week. Later I found a bigger version of this game called "Big Boggle" and discovered we liked this game much better than the original version.
One of my cousins came to visit one day while we were playing, she too became interested and it became a weekend thing for us. Soon we would have what we called our tournament at the end of the month.
THE GAME
The game is for two to six players from eight years old through adult, and consists of a container with grids in the bottom tray that holds twenty-five cubes with letters of the alphabet on all six sides of the cube. There is a cover that fit snugly over the bottom of the cube covering the tile cubes and a three-minute timer shaped like an hour glass. You will also need some paper to write your words on and a pen or pencil. We use any kind of paper from the plain side of junk mail to scratch pads.
OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object of the game is to find as many words of four letters or more in three minutes. At the beginning of the game someone must shake the cubes and settle them in the grooves in the bottom portion of the cube.
PLAYING THE GAME
Each player must make as many words as they can find within three minutes. Words are made by connecting letters from the tiled cubes using each letter once unless there are two like letters that connect to the other. When the three minutes are up each individual calls their words out and spell them since there may be more than one word that sounds alike but is spelled differently. Individual players will cross off words that are the same as the caller. This is done for each play, players that have words that were not called then tally the words that are left on their paper.
KEEPING THE SCORE
After all players have called their words, those words that were not crossed off are then counted using the scoring method from the game. Before the game begins, we decide the score goals, which we normally set as 500, the first person to reach this level is the winner. In the event of a tie, another round is played to break the tie. Points for each word left on players game paper is as follows:
Four letter words = 1 point
Five letter words = 2 points
Six letter words = 3 points
Seven letter words = 5 points
Eight letter words or more = 11 points
OTHER RULES OF THE GAME
Once the timer is running, players cannot touch the cube containing the tiles. If a word has more than one definition but spelled the same, you cannot score multiple points for that word. The cube that contains the letter "Qu" counts as two separate letters when using the letter "Q" in a word, the letters "M," "W" and "Z" each have a line under them so that each player knows exactly which letters they are in any direction you are playing.
TEAM PLAY
The game can also be played in teams of up to three teams. This is a great way to play so you can include younger members of your family with older family members or for inexperienced players that you may invite to play with you.
This is a great rainy day game that helps increase vocabularies and helps ones spelling skills. We always have a dictionary nearby for spelling challenges. You may challenge an opponent if they have listed a word you think is not spelled correctly; if their word is spelled correctly, you will have gained the knowledge of a new word and the definition of the word as well after you have challenged your opponent on the spelling of a particular word.
This is a family game that my children and I have played since they were eight and eleven. They are grown now, my oldest daughter has the small Boggle at her house that she plays with her eight and ten-year-old children. My friend of many years now and I still sit to the table and shake, shake, shake as we Boggle hours away and many times my younger adult daughter will join us in the fun.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: Ingrid Jackson
Location: Pendleton, SC
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