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Boggle


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8 years
 
     
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UserRatingMin. AgeAdults TooComment
Shade_Jon8  Hard to play with adults unless the kids can make three letter words and the adults have to stick with four letter words. If so, my kids have loved it.
The Unbeliever88Yes Great for young readers/spellers to practice their skills.
basl78Some  
LostDice78  
wkusau78Yes Really best with similar age kids. You can handicap older kids.
lankyengineer68Some  
cindy58Some As other reviewers have mentioned, the game does not scale well. Some sort of handicap is needed for adults and older children.
Gecko235   
petegrey5  Not a bad game. Not a great one either. What this game will do is teach about vocabulary and seeing patterns and working under pressure.
Randy Cox5  I love it with adults only, but it does not scale well. When I have played it with a youngster thrown in (though they were quite competent), they just cannot keep up.
shumyum4  This really does not work well with pre-teen kids. The (good) adults will blow them away and it just will not be fun. If all kids are playing, I suppose it would be a different matter, but it is not exactly the flashiest of games. Shade_Jons suggestion sounds good...I will have to try it.
Ed the Red3  As mentioned by others, it's no fun to actually play this with a mixed group. I have used it as an encouragement to learning words/ learning to spell by getting the kids to see what words they can make in a non-competitive way. But as a game, it's not that great until the children are way over the minimum age quoted above. Even very literate, very intelligent young teenagers struggle against their parents/grandparents in our family (though the adults in my family are all pretty good at this sort of game, so this may not be a typical experience). As an aside, one of my favourite moments in this game was a young nephew (aged about 3 I think, but it was a long while ago) who was desperate to join in with a game of Boggle staring at the board for the three mins before announcing that the only word he could spell was cat but he couldn't see it there!
erik2point038Some Suffers from most of the problems of scrabble for kids (spelling, vocabulary) although they can sometimes see some convoluted paths through the letters.