Released: Boggle Bash

Not really liking this game, but then i am not really a work game person either. Just got into a room with 15 seconds left on the timer and they where saying how some people don’t try and are Lazy. I was thinking i have 15 seconds left how much can i do in 15 seconds when i am not good at these types of games. So prolly be another game i play just for challenges.

I really like this game! Only played it a few times but… im partial to word games. I like how you get to play against others in the room rather then by yourself.

Just played the game and it’s kinda fun. Like Word Womp there are alot of words that I dopn’t know just crazy letters put together…lol Has a nice Pogo twist to it and U like the team challenges…

Love this game. My only tip would be to submit words even if you think they are not words.

I like the game but people are already cheating. There is no way you can get 200 words in a single round! Without cheating, of course. I guess there is a program where you can type in the letters and it will show you every word that you can make out of those letters. Then the cheaters just type those words in as fast as they can. Too bad.

Lura-

That was some good advice, but maybe you shouldnt have as big of head as yourself. Some people are really good at these games.

i like this game i was real good at spelling in school i won contests as we llas math class as far as cheating goes i dont need to cheat but i dont think its right to cheat either my mom always said if you have to cheat then dont play at all i mean come on why cheat this game is easy i think gl all have fun tc thnks pogo for another great game

I have been addicted to this game since they released it for beta testing. I definitely don’t think I’m the best at it, but I know I’m pretty good. It’s only a bit less fun being constantly beat out by players who use a website to find insane words I wouldn’t even submit as a guess. And before anyone accuses me of being a sore loser, I know for a fact that many people are using a website where you type in the letters on the board and are provided with all possible solutions, as I’ve already seen quite a few conversations about the site in several different rooms. I don’t really mind that people are doing it. I figure most people who use autos/websites just do it to rank up quickly. Once they’ve received the badges, they’ll probably go away.

WTG Lura! Like you I am an extremely fast typer and I LOVE word games. I think it’s great you know your strengths and well, I’ll give ya some of my hats if ya want LOL ;-) … Seriously though, I knew the point you were trying to make about autos, but yet I get accused all the time just because I’m good at a game and because of the amount of tokies I have. I play a LOT of poker and do quite well there too. I dunno, I just think people should mind their own because the auto people aren’t hurting anyone anyway. It’s their $, their account, they aren’t bothering me at all. I’m SO tired of hearing *cheat* in Boardwalk; ugh! It just seems that people aren’t happy unless they are a b****in’.

Oh, did I forget to say I LOVE the game! :) ~ I just type like a mad woman, and it’s amazing at the amount of words that I find that you don’t know existed. I scour the board quickly, type what I know, and then go crazy LOL. So glad they have a rank 5 badge; woohooooooo LOL. Need my badges. I do wonder how long it will be before the letters are there to spell *BADGE* ;)

Actually Laura, I didn’t know that. ;) Thanks for the info.

Wolfe

my mom has fell in love with this game already..loves her word games.

Lura~ Don’t worry… I knew what you were trying to say. I’m not very good at this game but can hold my own and to have found that many words, everytime… Something seems F-I-S-H-Y

All the in game badges look attainable within many hours of gameplay and dedication, but anyone know how to get that Boogle Wordsmith Badge? That one looks VERY HARD to get!

I love the game already. I love most word games …. with the exception of stupid wordjong. Got rank 10 in just a few hours. But yes it seems there must be a lot of cheaters already …. glad they will rank out in no time and then get lost. I hate them on principle. I also love that there are extra badges to earn aside from the rank badges!! Wtg pogo!!

Lura don’t apologize for being good at the game. I say go girl!!!

im thrilled !!got the first badge and got the spell badge badge too !! i LOVE word games ..

I’ve also noticed some people getting ridiculous points, I saw one person with 270 in 1 round, only getting 5, 6, 7, 8 letter words, so.. I’ve been pretty suspicious as well. But I don’t really care, I’m not going against them, and I’m just trying to find as much words as I can for rank!

As far as hints, my biggest scores come from finding -ing combinations. This also includes plural uses. No luck with the 10-letter combinations yet.

Janet, you might need to update your Java.

Just a suggestion.

Wolfe

Cripes!

Might want to read this link to see if any of the fixes may apply to you, Mike and Janet. I hear laptops appear more likely to get this error as well.

http://tech.yahoo.com/qa/20060823160442AADrWFH

Wolfe

ME ME ME Mike! I am getting the !Cripes! message as well, but my husband is not getting it on his computer. The room loads but when the game starts to play it crashes and gives me !CRIPES! I have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox, java, IE, cleared cache, cookies and offline data and disabled my anti-virus and firewall as pogo suggested in their reply to my question about it and nothing has worked. If anyone knows or can find a fix please let us know here asap. lol !! I’m mad cause l3ear can play it and I can’t! lmao

Sincerely sad at the moment
Carol

An update, my husband just went under my name on his computer and got the CRIPES error, but under his name is all fine, so it has to have something to do with my pogo account or the server my account is on or connecting to. Also Boggle Bash is the only game I get this error for.

Helppppppppp

OH and sascha2002, I never seen the jp in stats either (maybe they don’ t list it in stats). Although, they should…how are we supposed to know how close we are?

All I can say is WOW! Pogo finally came out with the game I’ve been waiting for, and it is near perfect, in my opinion. Like Lura mentioned a few weeks ago, I also played a similar game–think it was called Tangleword–over at the old Lycos games site about 10 years ago. I was very addicted to that game and have been hoping Pogo would get something like it for a looong time now! Boggle Bash definitely fills the void. I really like that the game lets you click/drag across the letters in a continuous chain and then submit with the right mouse button. I think that’s how Tangleword was. Anyway, I was very leery of cheaters when I first started playing tonight–based on all the posts here–but was happy to find there weren’t any–at first. I was the MVP in the first four rounds I played, but when I came back to the same room 30 minutes later, I was never even close again. There was at least one person who was scoring suspiciously high. In one round she found like 168 words and was continually getting similar scores. Impossible, and no one can change my mind on that. I don’t mind losing, but not to someone who doesn’t play by the rules. I wish there was a way where people couldn’t cheat, but I guess I’ll just have to live with it. I hope they’ll just move on after ranking out, like some of the people above mentioned. Anyway, thanks to Pogo for a great new game! Lura, let’s play sometime! It will be like the old Lycos days, LOL!

I like this game and all the word games it helps me with my typing skills to get better and it looks good on certain jobs.like someone mentioned before just cause someone gets a lot of wods in a round doesn’t mean they are cheating,they just type fast.and also about the websites i hear that help its really no different than the answers to the trivia.except trivia you win everytime you get the answers from here.and the sites that help with the word games it all depends how fast you type if you can get every word.

Love Boggle but there are alot of “cheats” & the game just came out. I find it distressing when people use these programs and can’t understand what pleasure or fun they get by using the “Cheat Programs”. Just to say they ranked out in a matter of days!!! Wish Pogo could do something about them. Was recently playing a rated game in Canasta & it became obvious that my opponent was using a cheat program he got 4000 points on an opening meld. I’ve heard of good players but that is really almost impossible to do. Pogo also has rules for the game that says if an opponent looses by more then 600 points it doesn’t effect their ratings. That is bull!!!! It certainly dragged mine down by 100 points. Pogo get on the ball with these cheats and all these players on passes that disrupt the games with their harrassing and vulgar mouths.

For me playing word whomp got me used to those pesky 3 letter words. Once you get the hang of those it’s easy to do well in this game. Also I’m not a fast typer so if you click like I do remember you can right click to submit your word.
I just got a server message saying the game was being shut down so maybe pogo will address some of those cripes errors.

I only use a laptop and haven’t had the cripes error come up, yet! I hope I don’t get it either, it is very frustrating when that does happen. It’s happened to me in scrabble awhile back.

I wondered if someone would point out the Trivial Pursuit answers here. Let’s be clear. When you play against the computer and no human opponents, you cheat only yourself. When you play against other people, there’s a BIG difference.

Your human opponents expect a fair shake when they play against a human opponent. Against a computer, most players stand no chance.

I’ll give an example.

Before I got one anagram into Boggle yesterday, my team won the goal in less than two seconds. I honesty thought the system lagged, but it became apparent to everyone that an auto was used.

No one else stood a chance at getting MVP or beating my team.

Again, it’s a big difference.

It’s not whining. It’s called fair play toward your peers in the competition. That’s all we’re asking.

Wolfe

I like this game a lot but very frustrating when yo are playing and some people are getting 150 words in a 90 sec round. That screams auto program all the way. Why cheat why not just work and get the badges the right way. My view is you pay for pogo why pay to cheat and get the badges if you want them earn them.

Yes, back to the Boggle Bash cheating. Like Wolfe mentioned, it’s not whining–it’s a legitimate complaint. When I play Boggle, I want to gauge how I do against “real” people playing and not autos, bots (sounds like a Transformer!) or whatever they are. Last night when I went back in, there were a couple players getting like 350 word in just one round. One round! It was impossible to even come close to them! All of us in the room who were playing fair knew what was going on and would say things like, “WTG HUMANS” after each game was over. The people who were obviously using the auto programs did not deny it or even argue with us at all. I wish Pogo could figure out a way, technologically, to keep these programs from running during a game.

I have played a lot of this boggle game so far and its great when there are actual humans playing and not against an auto bot. I have seen one person in a room I was playing in had over 100 unique words each and every time. Needless to say when I was on his team we won ever round thanks to his auto bot program, its very easy for me to see who is using the auto program and who isnt. A lot of other game its a little harder to tell but getting every word in boggle in less then 1 minute it becomes apparent. I do like the game and hope the auto botters go away. The other thing I would like for pogo to try is better anti-cheat for there programs. I know it would probably be a losing battle but it would be nice to see them try it. There have been some shooters games I would never play because of the auto botter issue and the game company never would employ anti cheat measures. Thanks for this great site and the forum to speak, GG to all.

Some people in chat were saying that the game has a cap of 45 words per round ( to hinder cheating) . Even if you get more it will only actually award you the 45 towards your progress. Pogo has been doing token limits in other games so it doesn’t surprise me. My only beef is that they could have capped it at around 100 words per round. It’s humanly possible to achieve more than 45 a round and quite easy for some of us who do play fairly.

i was in playing this morning im not getting credit for my tokens ive won has any1 else noticed that im not whining about it tho just wondering if the game is having problems other than that its a great game

Hey guys! Quick question. What are the little white marks beside the names? I’ve read the how to play but it doesn’t say. I’ve never played boggle before, but I’m enjoying it.

I would like to comment on the difference between getting the answers on a website or using a anagram from a website. I have no problems with any of them, why? Because getting something from a website and applying it to a game will almost certanly take you a little bit of time then using a auto bot program. The problem I see with auto programs is the domino effect, 1 person uses it the next person gets mad at the game because another person always wins all the time so the other person gets a auto program and very soon you end with about 40 to 50% of the people no longer using anything but auto programs. I do think its a small number of people using auto bots probl less then 5% I just find it troubleing. The othe diff. is word womp/trivial pursuit your not playing as a team but as an individual so it doesnt effect me in the least. I would also like to add I really playing the game and community that is pogo has always been for the most art very nice and very interesting to talk to.