July 11, 2006
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Lemme tell you something that is SO frustrating! I’ve got a Boggle game for the Nintendo DS, right?
You wouldn’t credit which words it’s dictionary refuses to recognize. Prepare yourself:
Dinner.
Goon.
Soon.
Pallet.
Mallet.
Era (though it accepts “eras”)
Cad (though it accepts “cads”)And there have been several other perfectly ordinary words. Of course, sometimes I accidently hit some keys and create a three-letter word I’ve never heard of before, and it takes it.
Doesn’t accept “dinner”? What lunatic created the game’s word list, anyway?
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We had one of those electronic learning toys for our children, the kind with the alphabet on it that had songs, and words, etc. You can spell a word and it will say it. We found out that not only won’t it spell swear words, it won’t let you spell God. Or Jesus. It was really weird.
Add to the list: seek, Greek, and there was another common word that I’m forgetting.
Weird’s the word!
I’ve found that electronic versions of games that weren’t electronic to begin with can be really, really cheesy. I’ve yet to find a PC Backgammon, for example, that doesn’t cheat like mad — getting three doubles in a row CONSISTENTLY, if there’s a race at the end, for example. They don’t put any real money into electronicizing (yes, I know that’s not a word, and presumably Boggle knows it, too) existing games; all the money goes into developing original stuff.