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Convert Big Boggle to regular Boggle
Summary
The best sixteen dice to pick in order to produce the lowest Kullback-Leibler divergence from the (new) standard Boggle distribution are:
AAEEEE, ADENNN, AEEGMU, AFIRSY, BJKQuXZ, CEILPT, ...
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
This French page gives the following configuration for a 16 die Boggle version:
ETUKNO EVGTIN DECAMP IELRUW
EHIFSE RECALS ENTDOS OFXRIA
NAVEDZ EIOATA GLENYU BMAQJO
TLIBRA SPULTE AIMSOR ENHRIS
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Dice with same letter on each side
What ended up happening was as follows. I first pre-arranged the letters well ahead of time by myself. Luckily, the other person needed to go into another room for some reason. I used this opportunity ...
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Boggle Jr 8 dice letters
The 8 dice are:
ABCDEF
ABCDEF
ABDEKO
EGRSTZ
GHIJKL
IKLNPW
LMNOPR
OSTUWY
This comes from the file posted here.
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Boggle - Letter distribution and face orientation of each die
I believe you'll find that the answer doesn't matter for your specific case:
If we assume every die is a fair die (which means every face has exactly 1/6 chance of coming face up, and is what you ...
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Boggle Rules - Two same letters to make a word
I can find nothing in the official rules, nor in the Wikipedia article, that disallows using the same letter on different cubes. In fact, the Wikipedia article names some of the longest possible ...
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
I made Dice combination in Bosnian language.
It can be used in Serb and Croat language.
Dice configuration:
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
Another 16-die Spanish version from Argentinean manufacturer Kipo's:
['N', 'D', 'S', 'E', 'A', 'O'], ['A', 'O', 'U', 'E', 'A', 'I'],
['N', 'I', 'T', 'A', 'G', 'U'], ['V', 'O', 'N', 'J', 'S', 'L'],
['...
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
I finally got my hands on a Spanish version of a 4x4 (16 dice) Boggle, specifically the "enclosed electronic-timer" version (sometimes referred to as "Scrabble Boggle" or "Boggle Reinvention")
The ...
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
The (one of?) the German version(s) you can find on my blog at http://blogabissl.blogspot.com/2016/08/boggle.html, standard 4 times 4 = 16 dice, including the way I turned the dice.
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
Italian 16 and Finnish dice configuration.
A-A-E-I-O-T A-B-O-O-M-Qu A-B-I-L-R-T A-C-E-L-R-S
A-C-D-E-M-P A-C-F-I-O-R A-D-E-N-V-Z A-I-M-O-R-S
C-E-N-O-T-U D-E-N-O-S-T E-E-F-H-I-S E-G-L-N-O-U
E-G-...
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Boggle: What is the dice configuration for Boggle in various languages?
We've been playing Super Boggle (by Parker) many times every day for the last 20 years. The letters on the cubes have started to become illegible. You can no longer buy Super Boggle (5x5 with flashing ...
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Can I legally make a boggle variant?
Copyright only covers specific implementations, i.e. the exact wording of the rules. Patents are a nonissue in this case, Boggle was released in 1972 so any patent applying to it would have expired ...
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