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Fewer games can make me feel stupider quicker than anagram games. 4 year olds have been known to beat me at Scrabble, and on one occasion a Spaniard who only spoke 3 words of English. I have a deep phobia of Carol Vorderman and the show "countdown" because of this. Boggle however does not elicit quite as much fear from me. I think it is the way the letters are set out, that you can get scores for 3 letter words, and that you get to play with dice. These facts soothe me. Boggle is trademarked by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro (that also makes risk, trivial pursuit and monopoly). The game is played using a plastic grid (4 x 4) of dice with letters on them, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. That sounds complicated, but it
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