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1.1       root        1: .TH BOGGLE 6
                      2: .CT 1 games
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: boggle, hangman, scrabble \- word games
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B /usr/games/boggle
                      7: [
                      8: .B +
                      9: ]
                     10: [
                     11: .B ++
                     12: ]
                     13: [
                     14: .I word word word word
                     15: ]
                     16: .PP
                     17: .B /usr/games/scrabble
                     18: .PP
                     19: .B /usr/games/hangman
                     20: [
                     21: .I arg
                     22: ]
                     23: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     24: .I Boggle
                     25: provides practice for the Parker Brothers game.
                     26: If invoked with 4 arguments of 4
                     27: letters each,
                     28: the program forms the
                     29: obvious Boggle grid and lists all the words from
                     30: .B /usr/dict/words
                     31: found
                     32: therein.
                     33: If invoked without arguments, it will generate
                     34: a board, let you enter words for 3 minutes, and then tell
                     35: how well you did relative to
                     36: .BR /usr/dict/words .
                     37: Words
                     38: may be formed from any sequence of 3 or more adjacent letters in the
                     39: grid.
                     40: Letters may join horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
                     41: However, no position in the grid may be used more than once within any
                     42: one word.
                     43: In competitive play amongst humans, each player is given
                     44: credit for those of his words which no other player has found.
                     45: .PP
                     46: Enter your words separated by spaces, tabs,
                     47: or newlines.
                     48: A bell will ring when there is 2:00, 1:00, 0:10, 0:02,
                     49: 0:01, and 0:00 time left.
                     50: You may complete any word started before the
                     51: expiration of time.
                     52: You can surrender before time is up by hitting
                     53: interrupt.
                     54: While entering words, your erase character is only effective
                     55: within the current word and your line kill character is ignored.
                     56: .PP
                     57: Option
                     58: .B +
                     59: removes the restriction that positions
                     60: can only be used once in each word.
                     61: Option
                     62: .B ++
                     63: causes a position to
                     64: be considered adjacent to itself as well as to its (at most) 8 neighbors.
                     65: .PP
                     66: .I Scrabble
                     67: plays the Selchow and Righter game on a  cursor-addressed
                     68: terminal against a single opponent.
                     69: To place a letter first move the cursor by typing 2, 4, 6, 8 for down, left, right,
                     70: up respectively (1, 3, 7, 9 are diagonals) then type the letter in place.
                     71: Type 
                     72: .L ?
                     73: to cycle through a set of helpful tables.
                     74: .PP
                     75: .I Hangman
                     76: chooses a word at least seven letters
                     77: long from a dictionary.
                     78: You then guess letters one at a time.
                     79: .PP
                     80: The optional argument
                     81: .I arg
                     82: names an alternate dictionary.
                     83: The special name
                     84: .L \-a
                     85: gets a particular very large
                     86: dictionary.
                     87: .SH FILES
                     88: .TP
                     89: .F /usr/dict/words
                     90: .TP
                     91: .F /usr/dict/web2
                     92: alternate dictionary for hangman
                     93: .SH BUGS
                     94: .I Hangman
                     95: runs hyphenated compounds together.
                     96: .br
                     97: .I Scrabble
                     98: rubs in its
                     99: brilliance with merciless play and an inhumane interface.

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