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BOGOUT.DOC
BogOut for Windows
Playing the Game
Rules of the Game
Preferences
Options
Playing the Game
Description
Starting the Game
Entering Words
Timer
Finding Words on the Board
Description
This is a game based on the dice game BOGGLE, modified for Windows. The game is
played with a board of square holes the size of dice. There is one dice for each hole with a letter
on each side. The die are shaken until they fall into the holes. Then a timer is set to stop after
three minutes, and the player(s) try to find words on the board until the timer stops.
Starting the Game
To play the game, select the options you want (see Preferences). Then select "New Game"
(for a new board) or "Restart Game" (to play the same board) from the Game menu. Press
<enter> when the message box appears.
Entering Words
You want to find as many words as you can. Enter each word you see in the board (see Rules
of the Game). There are three ways of entering words. You may hold down the left mouse button
and drag the mouse over each dice with the letters you want, then release the mouse button
when the word is complete. You may click on each letter of the word with the mouse, or you may
type the word on the keyboard. With the last two methods you can complete the word in three
ways. You can hit <enter>, or click the right mouse button, or click on the pushbutton labeled
"Enter" under the board. To erase a word, you can either hit <escape> or click on the pushbutton
labeled "Cancel" under the board. If the word is not accepted for some reason, a message box
will be displayed to describe the error. You can then hit <enter> to correct the word, or hit
<escape> to erase the word. You may stop the game any time by selecting "Stop Game" from
the Game Menu.
Timer
You have three minutes to find words (unless you change the time limit in the preferences'
box). A timer is displayed to show how much time is left (see Timer Type). When time is up, a
message box will come up, and you can't enter any more words.
Finding Words on the Board
To see at the words you entered, or words the computer found (if you selected option Show
Words), use the scroll bar on the right of the word list. To show where a word is on the board,
double-click the word that you want to see, and that word will be mapped out on the board.
Rules of The Game
Forming Words
Scoring
Forming Words
To form words, start with any dice on the board, and move to any adjacent dice. Each dice
can be left, right, up, down, or diagonal from the last. You cannot use the same dice twice in the
same word, but if there are two separate die with the same letter, you can use both in the same
word.
For example, on the board:
Y T R O N
E I E A N
A Z I N L
S P G L E
H O E S F
TIRE can be formed by "T"(row 1, column 2) "I"(row 2, column 2) "R"(row 1, column 3) "E"(row 2,
column 3). SELL is "S"(row 5, column 4) "E" (row 4, column 5) "L"(row 3, column 5) "L"(row 4,
column 4). POPE is invalid - "P"(row 4, column 2) "O"(row 5, column 2) "P"(row 4, column 2)
"E"(row 5, column 3) - because the same "P" is used twice. Words must be at least four letters
long.
Scoring
The scoring is as follows:
4 letter words ............... 1 point
5 letter words ............... 2 points
6 letter words ............... 3 points
7 letter words ............... 5 points
8 or more letter words ...... 11 points
The points for each word are added for the total score. The top ten scores are saved depending
on the options chosen, Board Size and Contained Words. If Look up Words is not chosen or if
the Time Limit is more than three minutes, the score is not saved. To erase all scores, delete the
file "TOPTEN.DAT".
Preferences
Contained Words
Look up Words
Show Words
Multiple Players
Minimum Points
Time Limit
Board Size
Word Order
Timer Type
Contained Words
Determines whether words that are contained in other words are allowed. For example, if
Contained Words is not chosen, and "RESTOCKS" was already entered, the words "REST,"
STOCK", and "STOCKS" would not be allowed.
Look up Words
Determines whether the word will be checked in the dictionary to see if it is real.
Show Words
With this option selected, all words found on the board will be displayed in a separate list
when the game is finished.
Multiple Players
Use this option to let two or more people (up to ten) play against each other on the same
board. The first player can choose "New Game" while the other players are not looking. When
the first player is finished, he chooses "Restart Game", and lets the next player play. The next
player must hit <enter> for the box that says "Game Ready" to see the board. When this player
is done, he chooses "Restart Game" for the third player, etc. The player's scores can be seen by
selecting Player scores under the "options" menu.
Minimum Points
This will cause the game board to have a total point count of at least the number entered.
The computer will continue creating boards and counting up the total points (the total points of
each board will be displayed in gray) until it finds a board with at least the number entered. If a
large number is entered, it may take the computer a very long time to create the board. You may
either type the number in the box, or click on the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the
number.
Time Limit
This determines the number of seconds that you have to enter words. The default is 180
(three minutes). You may either type the number in the box, or click on the up and down arrows
to increase or decrease the number.
Board Size
Determines whether the board will hold four die in each row and column or five die in each
row and column.
Word Order
Determines the order that words in the player and computer's lists are displayed in the list
box, either sorted alphabetically, sorted by increasing word length, or decreasing word length.
Timer Type
Determines whether the timer will be a digital clock, a bar, or an hourglass.
Options
Preferences (See above)
Player scores
High scores
Add dictionary word
Delete dictionary word
Player scores
Displays all players scores in a multiple player game.
High scores
Displays the top ten scores recorded.
Add dictionary word
Add a word to the game dictionary.
Delete dictionary word
Delete a word from the game dictionary.
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README.TXT
Bogout for Windows
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This is a game based on the dice game boggle. It must be run under
Microsoft Windows 3.0 or greater. There should be six files included:
BOGOUT.EXE - Bogout game
BOGOUT.HLP - Bogout help file
DICTIONARY.DAT - game dictionary
DICTNARY.IDX - index for dictionary
BOGOUT.DOC - directions
README.TXT - this file
Copy the first four files to your windows directory, or a new directory.
Go into the Program Manager in Windows, go into the Games group (or
any other group you want the game in), choose File from the Program
Manager menu, choose New from the File menu, and enter "Bogout" for
description, enter the path where you copied bogout.exe and "bogout.exe"
for the command line, and enter the path again for the working
directory.
Read the file BOGOUT.DOC for directions. This file is identical to the
Windows help file.
Quickstart - Click on the Game Menu. Click on New Game. Wait for the
message "Game Ready". Click on "OK". Place the mouse over one of the
squares. Hold down the mouse button. Drag the mouse over adjacent
squares (left right, up, down, or diagonal). You will notice the letters
appearing over the box labelled "Your Words". Release the mouse button.
If the letters form a valid word, it will appear under "Your Words".
Otherwise, you will get an error message.
If you like this game, please send $10.00 to:
Lance Frohman
2035 Filbert Street #102
San Francisco, CA 94123
Send any suggestions or complaints. If you would like the source code
on a diskette, send $25.00 to this address.
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #3730
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
BOGOUT EXE 62208 11-17-92 12:00p
BOGOUT HLP 16012 11-17-92 12:00p
DICTNARY DAT 139453 11-17-92 12:00p
DICTNARY IDX 899 11-17-92 12:00p
BOGOUT DOC 7098 11-17-92 12:00p
README TXT 1617 11-17-92 12:00p
GO BAT 31 6-04-92 2:25a
GO TXT 693 6-03-93 11:12a
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