Boggle word game

[AngelB]

Hi All

I have a game on my mobile phone which is a version of the dice/word game Boggle. For those that don't know, the game is played on a 4 x 4 grid held inside a clear plastic box. There are 16 dice in the box, each of which has 6 letters on it. The dice are tossed into the grid and the players make words based on the letters on the top side of the dice. You can start at any letter and then proceed horizontally, vertically or diagonally to the next dice, and so on and so forth until you make a word. The grid I am playing looks like this:
[tt]
I T W J
I L A N
U A H S
B Y G F
[/tt]
I have exhausted pretty much all the 3 and 4 letter words. I think the only ones left now must be the obscure scrabble dictionary sort of words! According to the game though, there are 11 5-letter words left, 2 6-letter words and 1 7-letter word. I am drawing a complete blank here, maybe I've been looking at it for too long. I found a couple of 5 letter words (WASHY and LAWNS) but no more. Can anyone here help me out? Virtual drink of choice for those that help!


Geraint

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[AnotherHiggins]

STALE

[tt]_____
[blue]-John[/blue][/tt]
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[IknowMe]

State

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[IknowMe]

This would be fun to code a solver for.

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[IknowMe]

Metal

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[IknowMe]

Can letters be used twice?

M L P W

E X T E
| \
S - T A A
|
L A - L E

Latest?

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[strongm]

Nope. At least, not in normal Boggle

 

[stubnski]

going off of state - estate


Stubnski

 

[MCuthill]

LATES
¿ PETTLE ?

Mike
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[snuv]

metals

"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary

 

[thekl0wn]

16 5-letter:

ATLAS
AXLES
ELATE
EXALT
LATEX
LATTE
LATES (listed on MW's site, but need un-abridged...)
LAXES
METAL
PETAL
SLATE
STALE
STATE
TAXES
TEATS
TESLA

Hmmm... Seems I have an OLE for an MS Office dictionary somewhere on the hard drive...

 

[ESquared]

Puzzle 1, in 3 minutes I get only: shalt galas built

Puzzle 2 got ruined because I didn't realize it was there.

If anyone wants to play boggle online it is out there (though not necessarily by that trademarked name). If anyone wants a boggle-solving program I wrote I'll give you the source code, although I wrote it about six years ago so I'll probably be embarrassed by it.

I love playing Boggle in person, but most people won't play with me after a couple of games.

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[snuv]

I dont know if its possible in boggle but

[tt]
n t s s
m e s b
n i a e
d e d n
[/tt]

there is a sixteen letter word in there

"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary

 

[p5wizard]

[white]Absentmindedness[/white]

(I confess: I cheated) Don't think it is boggleable though.

p5

 

[snuv]

Spoiler

[tt]
a OATTOW
b OBBAOJ
s HCPOAS
e LRYTTE
n EGHWNE
t IDSYTT
m NMIQHU
i MTOICU
n ZNRNHL
d YLDEVR
e ANAEEG
d XLDERI
n ENSIEU
e VTHRWE
s SEOTIS
s AFPKFS
[/tt]

"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary

 

[p5wizard]

So, yes it is boggleable...

[white]
absent... :
n  -  t     s     s
   \     /     \
m     e     s     b
               /
n     i     a     e

d     e     d     n

...tmindedness :
n     t     s     s
   /           /
m     e     s     b
   \           \ 
n  -  i     a     e
|                 |
d  -  e  -  d  -  n[/white]

p5

 

[Fenrirshowl]

Snuv

Looks like it is "absentmindedness". I assumed it would end in double s and worked backwards.

Fen

 

[snuv]

Fenrirshowl

yup

Snuv

"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary

 

[p5wizard]

Absentmindedness (hidden as white text on white background)

(I confess: I cheated)

I googled for an anagram server ;-)

p5