Boggle Game Download

A fun way to play Boggle
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I’ve been very pleased with this game- it’s a decidedly fun way to play Boggle. Playing on a computer allows for faster word submission, and allows the single player to play against a computer opponent. A series of awards keeps things interesting and creates goals. If you don’t care for the Boggle board game, or for word games generally, then I would not recommend this game. If you enjoy word games, this one is a great choice.

Great for importing viruses….
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is an update to my review:

After download the first time, I thought a subsequent root virus was incidental. (My Firewall is always on.) It was so bad that I had to reformat my drive and reinstall Vista. A few months later, after purchasing and installing very good anti-virus SW AND SCANNING DAILY, I downloaded and played Boggle again. With a single incidence of shutdown and start-up, my PC will only work in Safe Mode. In regular mode, it will not recognize my login password and my USB mouse and the touchpad on my laptop will not work.

BTW, I have had to reformat my laptop twice and reinstall since I first bought Boggle. This will be the 3rd time. Each time, Boggle was on my laptop. I really love playing the game, it’s such a temptation to think that a good anti-virus package will protect me, but not with this program!

I am no longer going to purchase Amazon games from download. Boggle was the only consistent factor each time. It is network-enabled, perhaps that is a factor.

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As I have gotten better and faster at the game, the real handicap has become the drag effect Boggle has on 4 different types of mice/pointing devices. After playing for a week and trying 2 different types of mice, one trackball, and the touch pad on my laptop, I can only conclude that it is the game, not my hardware, that causes the mouse to behave slower than real-time. I set the mouse speed on different settings; no change. Task Manager shows Boggle to be a real CPU-hog. I tried shutting down as many resident programs as possible and performance improved, but not enough…I still have to re-mouse over words if I go too fast, which breaks my concentration. The game runs in a shell, i.e., it’s not a genuine Windows-integrated game, and I think that’s the real problem. No mouse can compensate for a program that’s running an emulation for a mystery operating system (on Vista, no less.)

I can swing my mouse pointer off of Boggle and it suddenly acts without dragging. This game is loads of fun, still worth the price I paid (I got a week of enjoyment before I started out-performing my mouse) but it needs to be re-engineered or properly ported over to Windows (or Vista….if that’s the case.) My laptop was purchsed new a year ago, runs on Vista, and has 2 Gigs of RAM. I don’t know if Vista is the issue, because I don’t have anything else to test on.

If I could, I would go back and give it 3 stars due to poor performance that isn’t noticeable until you get much faster at playing the game. I would still recommend to buy it if you are going to use it to practice spelling or English skills. But recently I have narrowly lost several games because of having to remouse over words, slowing me down; or even mousing over a word and not realizing that it didn’t “take,” until the end when the word doesn’t show up on my list.

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Play the standard Boggle game, or have the letters facing the same way, you decide…this is definitely addicting; park your brain for 3 minutes at a time. Play against “CPU” on four different levels, or play against another person. “CPU” has an edge, however. Words like: aal, oes, voes, mos, & sei are words, according to Boggle on level “Hard.” However, some words that I thought should be there weren’t viable (e.g. jew, santa,bitch…) Then it will give me credit for the medical term for male privates…I wonder why?!?)

I started this game skeptical that it really would match me up to players across the U.S….but it did! I switched off my wireless connection and it said “DNS failure.” So even though people signed in under quirky names (e.g., Ima Dude), I could tell these were real people. It would be nice to be able to leave a short message to one’s opponent, but maybe that’s in the next revision. I bought the game ASIN:B001QCWQJE Blokus World Tour [Game Download]]] as software, and it matches you against computer-generated people. And the other Bogglers do not use crazy words like the Boggle-generated opponent.

I have Vista running on a laptop, and it works fine….until my virus scanner kicks in, then the mouse won’t work. Be sure to disable other CPU-draining programs before taking on another player on the Boggle network. My mouse still lags just a tiny bit during regular play, but not enough to make an issue of it. This is not a native Windows game, thus it launches a shell to run (my Blokus game did the same thing.)

I got so addicted, I played almost all day Sunday, trying to beat Betty from Philly. Later on autopilot doing dishes, I kept trying to unscramble words. E.g., PAST can make: TAP, TAPS, PAT, PATS, SAT, SPAT, PAST, & ASP.

If you beat Betty from Philly, be sure and let us know how you did it. :^)

Absolutely addictive!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
If you love word games, try this one. It’s easy, fast, and a lot of fun. And if a game isn’t working right on your computer, that’s a completely separate issue from whether or not it’s fun to play. I also find it very hard to believe that Amazon won’t make good on it–try calling their customer service phone number.