Game 01. In the absolute height of nerd-dom, the highlight of my day was playing the word “squeegee” in Boggle for 11 points, the most you can get for a single word.
I ended up winning, 257 to 199 versus Andie in 20 games.
The nerdiness was leavened somewhat by the fact that this was the first Boggle game we’ve played correctly. Andie doesn’t have the rules for her Boggle board, so we had been scoring one point each for each player’s unique words.
But according to the rules that came with the Boggle game I brought back recently from my parents’ house, words longer than four letters score additional points, based on their length.
Another aspect of our gameplay we had to correct upon reading the instructions, is that proper nouns can be played, as long as they’re in the dictionary (“Jason,” leader of the Argonauts, for example). We’d been using the Scrabble “no proper nouns” rule, but the Boggle instructions don’t specifically disallow the use of any dictionary words, although we’re still banning abbreviations in that they’re not “true” words, merely parts of them; the jury is still out on contractions.