Boggle [Game Download]

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Product Features

• Oodles Of Words.
• 3 Exciting Game Modes.
• Play With Up To 4 Players.
• Fast-Paced Family Fun.

Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B001KC00IO
• Release Date: June 16, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,587 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

Product Description

It's Boggle! The fast-paced word-making game with oodles of words and three exciting ways to play! Match your spelling skills against players from all over the world, play against the computer, or play with up to 4 players around your own computer. Are you ready to shake things up? Shake the box and race to see who can list the most unique words with the highest point value before the timer runs out! Let's play Boggle!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets - but without LAN play., February 5, 2009

By	Erick (USA) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Great implementation of Boggle, works on pretty much any speed machine, professional sound, music and graphics, well worth the [...] Amazon charged for it. I was pleasantly surprised that the Amazon store downloader lets you install it on multiple machines. You can play against the computer or online against random people (you just have to go against whoever the server matches you up with), but unlike what I was hoping, it won't let me play against my boyfriend on our local network at home - which would have been an easy feature to add.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for importing viruses...., August 31, 2009

By	a0188279 "Engineering Mom" (Texas) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This is an update to my review:

After download the first time, I thought a subsequent root virus was incidental. (My Firewall is always on.) It was so bad that I had to reformat my drive and reinstall Vista. A few months later, after purchasing and installing very good anti-virus SW AND SCANNING DAILY, I downloaded and played Boggle again. With a single incidence of shutdown and start-up, my PC will only work in Safe Mode. In regular mode, it will not recognize my login password and my USB mouse and the touchpad on my laptop will not work.

BTW, I have had to reformat my laptop twice and reinstall since I first bought Boggle. This will be the 3rd time. Each time, Boggle was on my laptop. I really love playing the game, it's such a temptation to think that a good anti-virus package will protect me, but not with this program!

I am no longer going to purchase Amazon games from download. Boggle was the only consistent factor each time. It is network-enabled, perhaps that is a factor.

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As I have gotten better and faster at the game, the real handicap has become the drag effect Boggle has on 4 different types of mice/pointing devices. After playing for a week and trying 2 different types of mice, one trackball, and the touch pad on my laptop, I can only conclude that it is the game, not my hardware, that causes the mouse to behave slower than real-time. I set the mouse speed on different settings; no change. Task Manager shows Boggle to be a real CPU-hog. I tried shutting down as many resident programs as possible and performance improved, but not enough...I still have to re-mouse over words if I go too fast, which breaks my concentration. The game runs in a shell, i.e., it's not a genuine Windows-integrated game, and I think that's the real problem. No mouse can compensate for a program that's running an emulation for a mystery operating system (on Vista, no less.)

I can swing my mouse pointer off of Boggle and it suddenly acts without dragging. This game is loads of fun, still worth the price I paid (I got a week of enjoyment before I started out-performing my mouse) but it needs to be re-engineered or properly ported over to Windows (or Vista....if that's the case.) My laptop was purchsed new a year ago, runs on Vista, and has 2 Gigs of RAM. I don't know if Vista is the issue, because I don't have anything else to test on.

If I could, I would go back and give it 3 stars due to poor performance that isn't noticeable until you get much faster at playing the game. I would still recommend to buy it if you are going to use it to practice spelling or English skills. But recently I have narrowly lost several games because of having to remouse over words, slowing me down; or even mousing over a word and not realizing that it didn't "take," until the end when the word doesn't show up on my list.

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Play the standard Boggle game, or have the letters facing the same way, you decide...this is definitely addicting; park your brain for 3 minutes at a time. Play against "CPU" on four different levels, or play against another person. "CPU" has an edge, however. Words like: aal, oes, voes, mos, & sei are words, according to Boggle on level "Hard." However, some words that I thought should be there weren't viable (e.g. jew, santa,bitch...) Then it will give me credit for the medical term for male privates...I wonder why?!?)

I started this game skeptical that it really would match me up to players across the U.S....but it did! I switched off my wireless connection and it said "DNS failure." So even though people signed in under quirky names (e.g., Ima Dude), I could tell these were real people. It would be nice to be able to leave a short message to one's opponent, but maybe that's in the next revision. I bought the game ASIN:B001QCWQJE Blokus World Tour [Game Download]]] as software, and it matches you against computer-generated people. And the other Bogglers do not use crazy words like the Boggle-generated opponent.

I have Vista running on a laptop, and it works fine....until my virus scanner kicks in, then the mouse won't work. Be sure to disable other CPU-draining programs before taking on another player on the Boggle network. My mouse still lags just a tiny bit during regular play, but not enough to make an issue of it. This is not a native Windows game, thus it launches a shell to run (my Blokus game did the same thing.)

I got so addicted, I played almost all day Sunday, trying to beat Betty from Philly. Later on autopilot doing dishes, I kept trying to unscramble words. E.g., PAST can make: TAP, TAPS, PAT, PATS, SAT, SPAT, PAST, & ASP.

If you beat Betty from Philly, be sure and let us know how you did it. :^)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely addictive!, March 18, 2009

By	Manhattan reader - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

If you love word games, try this one. It's easy, fast, and a lot of fun. And if a game isn't working right on your computer, that's a completely separate issue from whether or not it's fun to play. I also find it very hard to believe that Amazon won't make good on it--try calling their customer service phone number.