tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 05 10:55:26 2001
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RE: Boggle
- From: "TPO" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Boggle
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:55:23 -0400
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <a04320409b7893ec3c4b4@[207.229.148.208]>
> ...I've been wanting to port the game Boggle...
> The problem is, I'm not sure how best to go about making the cubes so
> that the game plays well in Klingon. Has anyone done this already? If
> so, can you comment on how you distributed letters on the cubes and how
> it worked?
>
> If not, I'm not sure how to start, as I don't know how Boggle was
designed.
> I imagine they started with a letter distribution chart, which I could
> make out of the TKD for simple vocab distribution, but not usage. I'm not
> aware of any distribution charts for Klingon either way. Does one exist?
> I suppose I could do a count of letters used in past posts to this list...
> :-)
>
> Anyway, I'm posting here for a few reasons:
>
> 1) Information about any already existing Klingon Boggle game(s)
> 2) Links to resources that might help me figure out a reasonable
> distribution
> 3) Discussion about theory, and maybe we can work this out together
I made a Boggle set (picture on my website). Someone on the list did make a
distribution chart. I could look through my files a probably find out who,
or they may see this and respond. I have their files.
For Boggle I ended up putting consonants and vowels on seperate cubes. 16
cubes total.
5 cubes for vowels. Each vowel once on each cube, plus an extra e, an extra
I, and 3 extra a.
11 consonant cubes; each consonant 3 times, except:
2 extra ', a total of 5 '.
2 extra H, a total of 5 H.
1 extra j, total 4 j.
1 extra m, total 4 m.
subtract 1 ng, total 2 ng.
subtract 1 Q, total 2 Q.
subtract 1 r, total 2 r.
DloraH