This month's review is of a game called Bogged. It is a GUI Boggle clone written in tcl/tk and is very easy to use. As always, it can be found in the games directory of the FreeBSD ports collection.

The aim of the game, like Boggle, is to find as many words as you can out of the letters that Bogged provides you. It follows most of Boggle's rules except that you don't have a time limit. The screen is made up of a 4x4 grid of letter buttons on the left and a space to record all the words you have found on the right.

Once you elect to start a new game, it will randomly select 16 letters, scan through them to find all the different words of three letters or more, and then lets you know how many it found.

Now it's your turn to find as many words as you can. One variation in this game that I enjoyed was when a word that is not in the game's dictionary was entered, it would give you a message like "Dang, I feel foolish", or "Stupid %$*# dictionary!".

The general rules are that you cannot use the same letter more than once in a single word. All words must have more than three letters. When you find a word, you click the corresponding letters on the Bogged letter buttons (as far as I could tell, you cannot use your keyboard), and then press the "Add Word to List" button. As you enter more words, Bogged keeps track of how many you have entered, and your percentage of the total that Bogged has found in the grid.

I have enjoyed playing Bogged, although I could only play a couple of games before I wanted to move on to something else. It is a good "in-betweener" type game when you just want a 5 minute break from your work.

- Shelly

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