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Annotation of researchv10no/games/boggle/inst, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .ll 71
                      2: .ls 1
                      3: .ti +5
                      4: The object of Boggle (TM Parker Bros.) is to find, within 3 minutes, as
                      5: many words as possible in a 4 by 4 grid of letters.
                      6: Words may be formed from any sequence of 3 or more adjacent letters
                      7: in the grid.  The letters may join horizontally, vertically,
                      8: or diagonally.  However, no position in the grid may be used
                      9: more than once within any one word.
                     10: In competitive play amongst humans, each player is given
                     11: credit for those of his words which no other player has found.
                     12: .ti +5
                     13: This program is intended for people
                     14: wishing to sharpen their skills at Boggle.
                     15: If you invoke the program with 4 arguments of 4 letters each,
                     16: (e.g. "boggle appl epie moth erhd")
                     17: the program forms the obvious Boggle grid and lists all the
                     18: words from /usr/dict/words found therein.
                     19: If you invoke the program without arguments, it will generate
                     20: a board for you, let you enter words for 3 minutes, and then
                     21: tell you how well you did relative to /usr/dict/words.
                     22: .ti +5
                     23: In interactive play, enter your words separated by spaces, tabs, or newlines.
                     24: A bell will ring when there is 2:00, 1:00, 0:10, 0:02, 0:01, and 0:00 time
                     25: left.
                     26: You may complete any word started before the expiration of time.
                     27: You can surrender before time is up by hitting 'break'.
                     28: While entering words, your erase character is only effective within the current
                     29: word and your line kill character is ignored.
                     30: .ti +5
                     31: Advanced players may wish to invoke the program with 1 or 2 +'s as the
                     32: first argument.  The first + removes the restriction that postions can only
                     33: be used once in each word.
                     34: The second + causes a position to be considered adjacent to itself
                     35: as well as its (up to) 8 neighbors.
                     36: Hit any key to begin.

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