Game 48: Boggle

With all the brand new games I've been posting about, I figured it was time to pull an "oldie but a goodie" from our shelves to play today.  Boggle is a game that's been around for what seems like forever - which I think the condition of this box testifies to!  Like Life, it's another of the games I always wanted as a kid but never had during childhood.  Early in our marriage David and I came across this set at a thrift store and bought it.  Check out the price written on the box lid in black crayon: 49 cents!
 Boggle is a game of finding words.  It consists of 16 dice with letters on each face and a 4x4 grid in which the dice sit.  There's a lid that allows you to shake up the dice and let them fall back into the places.  Players then race against a timer to find as many words as they can in this grid.  Words must be constructed of adjacent letters (adjacency can be diagonal as well as orthogonal), but a die cannot be used more than once within a word.  David and I played 4 quick games today as a break from planning for the upcoming school year.  Below are posted the pictures of each of our four rounds.  How many words can you find in each grid?  What is the longest word you can find in each grid?



 The picture below is of the complete set up with grid, dice, lid and timer, so remember if you're attempting my challenge above, there is a time constraint!  Points by word-length are given in a grid at the bottom of this post (information taken from Wikipedia, as we've lost our rulebook).


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