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Boggle is a word game that is played using a plastic grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. Do not use this tag if you are boggled trying to find a solution, use this only for questions related to the game Boggle or something similar to finding words from letters on connected vertices on a graph.

Boggle™ is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and originally distributed by Parker Brothers. The game is played using a plastic grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters.

For example the word super:

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Instructions

Because of the simplicity of the game and reasoning needed to model solutions to the game in software, it is popular as a learning exercise or homework. There are thousands of repositories on GitHub for Boggle™

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How to validate each input character based on following conditions

I am developing a Boggle game. I want to validate two things on key press/up/down etc. Using keyboard, a user should be restricted to only enter character that is in the board (and append it to input string/word) else skip it. Boggle board of 4 x 4…
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Boggle solver implementation

I am struggling to implement a solution to finding all the words in a random 5x5 board of letters. Currently it is returning a few words but not nearly the full list. I am pretty sure that my problem exists within the findWords method with my for…
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Search a 4x4 board of characters for words in the dictionary

This is a C Assignment for a Boggle Board. The assignment is to search a 4x4 board of characters for words in the dictionary by starting at a tile and moving up, down, left, right, or diagonally at any point. My program "jumps" from one point to…
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Racket Boggle Game

I am working on a big boggle game in racket for a class. I am still trying to figure out racket so I am really struggling with this. I am supposed to print out a 5x5 board with random letters in it and then I need to print out a list of lists with…
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Error when using Python multiprocessing module with Boggle Solver

I have the following program which is a Boggle solver: import logging import multiprocessing from random import choice from string import ascii_uppercase def get_grid(size=None, letters=None): if size: grid = {(x, y):…
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Optimizing an R Boggle Solver

Forenote: this is a follow-up question to this one. I've programmed a Boggle Game Solver in R (see this github page for source code), and find its performance disappointing. Here's how it works... # Say we have the following set of…
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How to do a recursive search for a word in the Boggle game board?

Can someone help me with a psuedocode or even the recursive formula that describes the recursive search for a word in the Boggle board so I can get started?
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C++ recursion segfault. Can you help me see what I'm doing wrong?

This is the first time I've used recursion to do something other than find the factorial of a number. I'm building a program to find words in a boggle board. Following is the function that is resulting in segfaults: void findWord(vector&…
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Boggle Game Board Search Program Issues

I am programming a boggle game board solver. It uses a Stack, a 2D Array Grid of letters for the game board that are read in from a .dat/.txt file, and Search "States" to store where its been, specifically (point coordinates, word so far). It is…
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Java: Remembering a result from a previous step in a recursive method

I'm working on a Boggle game and some people told me the best way to search words is using recursion. I'm trying out a searchWord method to search the word. If the first letter is found, the method calls itself and drops the first letter. The method…
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Searching words in array

Possible Duplicate: How to find list of possible words from a letter matrix [Boggle Solver] I have a String[][] array such as h,b,c,d e,e,g,h i,l,k,l m,l,o,p I need to match an ArrayList against this array to find the words specified in the…
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Error from simply initializing a variable?

While putting together a Boggle solver, I ran into some strange behavior I was hoping someone could explain to me. I got the function to return a set of possible words, and all I seemed to be missing was a way to prevent the solver from including…
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Why am I getting the warning "missing argument" on my Boggle solver?

Some years ago here someone had posted some PHP code on a Boggle solver they made with PHP. How to find list of possible words from a letter matrix [Boggle Solver] I have been trying to get it to work but I get an error of "Warning: Missing argument…
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Python, Backtracking: What's wrong with my Boggle word detector?

I am supposed to make a Boggle word detector thru backtracking. I based my Python solution out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0z1VFXegQk&t=1737s. The program is supposed to print out words from the board that match the contents of this…
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boggle game with combination of pygame and tkinter

I'm building a boggle game, and I want to add a circle countdown timer to the game. I built a timer using pygame, and the whole game is built on tkinter. Is it possible to merge the two windows so that the timer appears on the game board when the…
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