These words should never be spoken

Right, then, Boggle fans. Despite the blandishments of Perl and Excel, I have buggered around with bits of paper and Emacs keyboard macros to calculate the scores.

Any word which was listed by more than one person doesn't count - there were a lot of very suspicious looking words listed by two or more people, but we'll just sweep them quietly under the carpet.

Any word listed by one person only has been hunted thoroughly in my OED. My OED is a wonderful book, by the way - it's the "compact" edition, which means it's the complete thing "reproduced micrographically" in one volume, and is chuffing massive. It's the second edition, for people who care about such things. Words which weren't in the OED I checked against dictionary.com to be sure.

( Show me the unique words! )

( Show me the scores! )

( The words which got away )

Thanks all.

I am tired of second guessing

So, the other day I suggested a game of Boggle. Which was all jolly good fun, but when calculating the scores I realised that there are inherent problems (a) with all word-games, ever and (b) with a game of Boggle which effectively has no time-limit.

Accordingly, here is a very different game. This, I suspect, might appeal to a different set of people to the original game (or, of course, to absolutely no one).

I'm going to post another Boggle grid. As before, you are invited to submit words. However, this time the rules are as follows:

• A word is a legal word if (and only if) dictionary.com lists it as a word.


• Words listed by one person score as before. Words listed by more than one person score -1 for each person who lists them.

You're allowed to look words up. You are, however, strongly discouraged from writing scripts to check all possible combinations against dictionary.com's definitions ;)

Rattling the dice in the Boggle box... we come up with a grid which has no vowels in it :(
Rattling the dice again...

I	N	T	O
E	E	A	Y
L	W	F	L
E	L	M	H

Any takers ?