top | item 44106594

(no title)

danvk | 9 months ago

It's open source, take a crack at it! Or file an issue requesting it.

This analysis doesn't make use of the Boggle dice. It assumes that any cell can be any letter. In practice, all high-scoring boards can be rolled with the Boggle dice. My code does assume the letters are A-Z, though, so the Ñ die in Spanish Boggle would require some code changes.

discuss

order

smcin|9 months ago

Ok, but then a) we'd need to refine the issue to "enhance request to handle every non-ASCII character/digram that could occur in other Boggle languages":

- Spanish: ñ

- Czech: no extra characters (e.g. 'E' can be used in words as E, É and Ì)

- Danish/Norwegian: do Boggle dice use æ,å,ø ? I searched but couldn't find out.

- Swedish: do Boggle dice use å,ä,ö ?

- Turkish: do Boggle dice use ç,ı,ğ,ş,ö,ü ?

- Bosnian: see https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/a/51289/2358

- Filipino: ñ . And separately in some wordgames (e.g. Scrabble knockoffs), I see 'ng' treated as a single digraph. Apparently it's officially a separate digraph, so the Tagalog alphabet ('abakada') has 28 letters.

And b) if we have rare characters on a few dice (esp. the unofficial Bosnian one proposed), that imposes restrictions on your assumption that any cell can be any letter. So you'd have to postprocess to cull a few words that couldn't legally be made with that dice-set.