term% cat index.txt BOGGLE(6) Games Manual BOGGLE(6)
NAME
boggle, hangman, scrabble - word games
SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/boggle [ + ] [ ++ ] [ word word word word ]
/usr/games/hangman [ arg ]
DESCRIPTION
Boggle provides practice for the Parker Brothers game. If invoked with
4 arguments of 4 letters each, the program forms the obvious Boggle
grid and lists all the words from /usr/dict/words found therein. If
invoked without arguments, it will generate a board, let you enter
words for 3 minutes, and then tell how well you did relative to
/usr/dict/words. Words may be formed from any sequence of 3 or more
adjacent letters in the grid. Letters may join horizontally, verti‐
cally, or diagonally. However, no position in the grid may be used
more than once within any one word. In competitive play amongst hu‐
mans, each player is given credit for those of his words which no other
player has found.
Enter your words separated by spaces, tabs, or newlines. A bell will
ring when there is 2:00, 1:00, 0:10, 0:02, 0:01, and 0:00 time left.
You may complete any word started before the expiration of time. You
can surrender before time is up by hitting interrrupt. While entering
words, your erase character is only effective within the current word
and your line kill character is ignored.
Option + removes the restriction that positions can only be used once
in each word. Option ++ causes a position to be considered adjacent to
itself as well as to its (at most) 8 neighbors.
Scrabble plays the Selchow and Righter game on a cursor-addressed ter‐
minal against a single opponent. To place a letter first move the cur‐
sor by typing 2, 4, 6, 8 for down, left, right, up respectively (1, 3,
7, 9 are diagonals) then type the letter in place. Type `?' to cycle
through a set of helpfule tables.
Hangman chooses a word at least seven letters long from a dictionary.
You then guess letters one at a time.
The optional argument arg names an alternate dictionary. The special
name `-a' gets a particular very large dictionary.
FILES
/usr/dict/words
/usr/dict/web2 alternate dictionary for hangman
BUGS
Hangman runs hyphenated compounds together.
Scrabble rubs in its brilliance with merciless play and an inhumane in‐
terface.
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