Originally published at: The secret reason that the Boggle letters were changed | Boing Boing
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They have banned the word fake!
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Well, I guess I’ll hang onto the two older versions I have, then.
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This is why policing language is so dumb. Think of how many perfectly good words you can’t spell because one combination of letters is deemed profane. Like seeing that combination of letters on a game board will irrevocably damage a player. Ugh.
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I want to be the first to say it:
YOU CAN’T FUCK WITH BOGGLE!
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I played Boggle once but, honestly, I couldn’t give two fecks about it now.
(I once got two fecks - scored double!)
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Guilty as charged.
Only I didn’t spell “fudge.”
Yahoo Games once had something similar. Basically Boggle on steroids.
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But the only Fs and Ks available in the revised version of the game are on the same cube — the AFFKPS one. It is impossible, therefore, to spell any word that requires both an F and a K, such as fork, knife, or…
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I never get ANYTHING.
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How come when I see F you see K?
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None given.
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…aaaaand, pre-1987 versions of Boggle just skyrocketed in value.
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Because you’re holding the cube with the F facing you, duh
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Peggy Hill doesn’t care because she never would have used a bad word anyways.
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So the theory is this isn’t a freak fluke of fickle fate?
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I played sooo many games of Big Boggle (5x5) in college.
Nowadays I get my daily fix at http://squaredle.app . It’s human-constructed, which means that the 4x4 and 5x5 versions are set up to have way fewer words than you’d expect by chance (and generally a few very long ones matching some theme), whereas the 3x3 (click the puzzle piece for Squaredle Express) is set up to have more. Recommended.
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Fuck yeah!
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Alas, we can only get the finger of fate with these Boggle letters.
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