Test your vocabulary in this classic word game! Find and connect as many words as possible hidden inside a small grid. The longer the word, the more points you’ll earn. You’ll have three rounds to find words and rack up a high score.
Overview
If you ever played the classic board game Boggle, you’ll love our modern take on it. The goal of Boggle is to create as many words as you can using a 4x4 or 5x5 grid of random letters.
Each letter tile is worth a set number of points. Connect letters to spell out words and earn the sum of the letter points. The longer the word, the more points you earn.
Each Boggle game consists of three rounds. In the first round, simply challenge yourself to connect as many words as you can. In the second and third rounds, we’ll add double/triple letter and word tiles to the board. Try to use as many of these special tiles as possible to maximize your score!
Connect Words
In all three rounds, you’ll need to connect at least two letters to spell out words. Each letter of the word must be connected to the previous letter, either side-by-side or diagonally. No individual letter tile can be used more than once in each word.
You can only submit a particular word once per round, but you can submit plurals and other variations of the word.
There are two ways to select letter tiles:
- Dragging: Drag your finger from one letter tile to the next to form a word.
- Tapping: Tap one letter, then another until you have formed a word.
Submit Words
As you connect letters, the words you form will be checked against the Boggle dictionary. If your word is valid, we’ll display your potential score in the letter tray above the grid.
When you’re ready to submit a word, click the green checkmark on the letter tray. If you submit a valid word, you’ll receive points, and the submitted word will show in the word list at the top of your screen. You won’t lose points for typing non-valid words.
Each word must be at least two letters long. Proper nouns and abbreviations are not permitted.
A standard game lasts three minutes. When the clock reaches 0:00, the game ends.
Your score is determined by the length and value of the words you create.
Base Word Scores
Each time you submit a valid word, you’ll receive the sum of the points of each letter in the word.
Letter Score Chart
Bonus Tiles
In rounds two and three, you can use bonus tiles to increase the point values for individual letters or entire words.
Bonus tiles include:
- Double letter (DL) - Doubles the value of the tile used in the word
- Triple letter (TL) - Triples the value of the tile used in the word
- Double word (DW) - Doubles the value of the word submitted
- Triple word (TW) - Triples the value of the word submitted
All-Letters Bonuses
If you use all the letters in the grid during a round, you’ll receive an all-letters bonus worth 100 points. You can earn this bonus once for each of the three rounds. To help you keep track, a small pink dot will appear on a letter tile once you use it.
Five+ Letter Words Bonuses
For each valid word with five or more letters, you’ll receive a bonus to their word score using this formula:
- (Number of letters used - 4) x 5 = bonus points
- For example, if you submit a six-letter word: (6 letters - 4) x 5 = 10 bonus points
Upgrading Your Word Scores
You can only earn points for a word once per round. However, it’s possible to upgrade a score for a previously submitted word if you submit a higher-scoring configuration of that same word. For example, imagine that you earn five points for spelling the word “CAT”. Then, in the same round, you find another spelling of “CAT” that uses a double-word bonus tile and is worth ten points. If you submit this higher-scoring version of “CAT”, you’ll earn the difference in points. In this case, you’d earn five additional points for submitting “CAT” (the difference in point value between the first and second spelling of CAT).
- Use every letter in the grid to earn 100 bonus points.
- Go for double/triple word and letter bonuses.
- Make words plural by adding an “S” to increase your word list.
- Earn bonus scores for five-letter or longer words.
- Want to save time? Tap the last letter of your word to automatically submit it.