tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 06 02:27:42 2001
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Re: Boggle
For the ease of manufacturing the game there is always the pocket boggle
which uses strips of letters a grid rather than cubes. The Strips of
letters are then dealt and slid into the grid to create the choice. Even
easier if you have the game as then you only need to make the strips.
qe'San
----- Original Message -----
From: "TPO" <[email protected]>
> > ...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
>