Comments: Boggle is a good game. You have twelve dice in rows of three, and on the dice are letters of the alphabet. All the letters are mixed up and when the timer is set, you must highlight as many words as you can see. The letters must be able to be connected to each other.

You can play with another online opponent, with the computer and for the third option I think there is no timer.

When you win a game your rating goes up. You start off being a novice, and work your way up. I think playing against another opponent is excellant idea. It makes you think quickly. Plus you learn other new words when the results come back.

My only downfall is that the music is awful. You would be better of muting it, and playing your own. Plus there is a man who comments on how well you re doing - he is very very annoying. You have to mute him out too, which is a shame because apart from that this is a great game.

It's very addictive and I am considering buying it.

Comments: Great game . . . addictive. I highly recommend. I like that I can play mouse-free.

Minor annoyances are as follows:

1. No way to communicate with online opponents . . . makes me suspicious whether the opponent is for real, or just a computer pretending to be a live person.

2. Wish there were a way to report suspected cheaters. It is quite suspicious when someone has very few points after 90 seconds, then suddenly creates a series of 3, 5, and 11 point words in the last minute.

3. Sometimes I am repeatedly matched against the same person; wish it would not allow me to repeat an opponent within a 24-hour period, even if it means having to play a stronger or weaker opponent, or having to wait 30-60 seconds for a suitable opponent to become available.

4. At end of the game, I wish it would sort mised words in descending order of point value instead of alphabetically. I'm most interested in what 5- and 11- point words I missed.

5. Rather than put QU on one cube, I wish it would instead just make sure a Q cube is always adjacent to a U cube. Yes, I know in the old-fashioned physical game, the QU was on the same cube out of necessity, but this is not a requirement in an electronic version of the game. It is annoying.

Comments: Boggle and BoggleMaster are elegantly simple word games that continue to stimulate and challenge you for the long haul. I have easily logged an hour per day for a year without ever getting tired of the game. Other word games either move too slowly or have too much flashiness for their own good.

As you progress in the games, you are scored, which determines the skill level of the opponent you will be playing. This is exciting because you are challenged by a similarly skilled opponent whether you are a fourth grader or a forty-year-old. My children play in the 1400 point levels and I play in the 2000+ point ranges. Fun and educational for all ages! I love how you can easily see which words both you and your opponent got the same or differently, as well as see the words that neither one of us discovered. Exquisitely educational!

This version of Boggle doesn't penalize you for wrong guesses, an excellent feature for getting kids to make educated guesses. (I had a CD-rom version that would make you click an error message with every wrong submission, which was time-consuming and annoying.)

The only faults in the game are hardly significant, and I can only think of three. 1) It would be nice to be able to communicate with the other players, but you can tell they're humans on real-time game play. 2) The commentary can get redundant, but happily there's an option to mute. 3) In the highest levels of play (2100+), it’s evident that you’re not always playing a human, due to the fact that the opponent is submitting words not only alphabetically, but by highest to lowest point values. This is probably a necessary artifact in that skill level. On the plus side though, your score is hardly (or not at all impacted) if you get smacked down by someone of an exceedingly higher level than you.

If I were the game’s creator, I would create a version with a five-letter minimum, add player interaction, and add "opponent choice," so you could challenge a friend.

Comments: As you get to higher levels (2100+) it won't always play others at your level, instead having you play people with extremely high scores - and no chance of winning. But, when you are getting trounced by a high level player (computer?) and hit done early - all of a sudden this higher player gets a full complement of score and words - before the words were ever typed. This part really makes the game unfun to play. Programmers - knock it off!!